What sets Stanford Shopping Center apart from all others? Ask that question of virtually anyone who has visited the Center, and the answer will be "the gardens". Because Stanford is an open-air center, we have been able to create a "shopping center disguised as a park."

Created by our inspired landscape designer, the gardens are maintained by a staff of two full-time gardeners who carefully tend to all 70 acres. Thirty-five varieties of trees are represented by 1,300 individual specimens and flower filled planters are located in four microclimates.

The key to creating a beautiful garden is to pay careful attention to height, color and texture. The secret is in the way these three elements are skillfully blended.

You will find two plantings each year: one in April/May and a second in October/November, as well as a mid-to-late summer "pick-me-up." The spring planting includes summer petunias, impatiens, dahlias, and summer-blooming perennials. The fall planting includes spring bulbs, pansies, sweet peas and fall-blooming perennials.

We invite you to stop and smell the flowers in the gardens of Stanford Shopping Center.