The Carolee Shields White Flower Garden and Gazebo is a beautiful theme garden located in the UC Davis Arboretum and based on medieval moon-viewing gardens of India and Japan. Named for Carolee Shields, an avid gardener, and wife of one of the founders of the UC Davis campus, the garden features curving paths framing a vine-covered gazebo and exquisite flowering and fragrant plants whose pale flowers are particularly luminous by moonlight. Features of the garden include the Lois Crowe Patio, the Native American Contemplative Garden, the Foundation, The Putah Creek Lodge Bridges, a dock and a boathouse, and the pretty gazebo. The Carolee Shields White Flower Garden and Gazebo is a popular venue for weddings and other celebrations and special events.

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