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All landscaping will prioritize ecological diversity and environmental sustainability.
The land south of the library will be a recreation of a prairie, not unlike 50 acres of native prairie the Bushes have reclaimed on their Crawford ranch. The prairie design includes complementary habitats such as a floodplain forest and a wildflower meadow, as well as native Texas grasses on the north and south lawns. An innovative storm-water management system will collect and reuse runoff, reduce irrigation needs and conserve precious water.
The Texas Rose Garden, possessing the same proportions, solar orientation, and formal organization as the White House Rose Garden, references one of the landscapes most famously associated with the Presidency. Conceived of as part of the larger museum space, the garden also includes an exhibit of quotes in niches on the wall parallel to the loggia.
Set within a larger landscape that recreates the ecological zones of the Texas Blackland Prairie, the landscape speaks specifically to this particular president’s roots in the state of Texas. The Texas Rose Garden features a range of plantings that are adaptable to the Dallas climate. Whereas many previous presidential museums have featured replicas of the Oval Office, this homage to White House Rose Garden is unique. An interpretation of the original rather than a copy, the Texas Rose Garden will include long marble seatwalls that provide views out to the Presidential Center's Blackland Prairie setting as well as the Dallas Skyline beyond.
The eastern axis of the garden culminates in a large water garden with water lilies, irises, and sedges. Formal evergreen hedges of native Yaupon Holly frame massings of perennials, grasses, and shrubs, such as Texas Bluestar, Winecup, Standing Cypress, Foxglove and Buttonbush. Trees such as Crape Myrtle and Southern Magnolia provide scale and shade for the garden.
