The Visitor Center
The Visitor Center is located next door to the home of Eudora Welty at 1109 Pinehurst Street. This center is used to provide visitors with an overview of Welty's life, writings, and literary achievements. Inside of the visitor center is a store where visitors can buy books, shirts, and other such memorabilia relating to Eudora Welty. The Visitor Center is also home to a "Little Library," which is a community maintained free library. This is a space dedicated to the preservation of literature. == The Garden ==
The Garden
This garden was designed by Chestina Welty, Eudora Welty's mother, in 1925. The garden was often referred to by Eudora and her mother as a labor of love. It is located in the back of Eudora Welty's home and is a popular tourist attraction. The garden has a rose garden section, woodland garden section, and a camellia flower collection. Chestina Welty put enormous effort into the design of the garden, creating a "succession of bloom" throughout the entire year. For example, over 40 varieties of camellias bloom in the garden throughout the winter months. In the summer, the night-blooming cereus plants bloom on the side porch, an event Welty often invited friends to come spectate. Visitors are able to tour and explore the vast amount of different species of flowers growing in the garden, many of which feature in Welty's writing. In The Golden Apples the cereus is depicted as "a naked, luminous, complicated flower." Welty also wrote extensively about the garden in her letters. ==See also==