Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden (Adelaide) surrounded by green lawns, and four garden beds with ornamental trees and shrubs at the edges. Cornish's choice of plants was influenced by their symbolic meanings, selecting five "Populus nigra "Italica"" (Lombardy poplars) to represent the five women of the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Trust; "Quercus ilex" (holly oak) and "Myrtus communis" (myrtle) for protection and love; "Lonicera" (honeysuckle) for love, generosity and devotion; and "Syringa vulgaris" (lilac) to symbolize memory, protection, youth and tenderness. Here the designer carefully selected plants for their metaphorical meanings. Original plans for the garden included the use of a 'floral clock', that would represent the
Trial garden flowering season, and disease or pest tolerances or resistance. Vegetables are judged looking for such traits as speed to harvest, total yield, fruit taste, fruit quality, ease of harvest, plant habit, disease, and pest resistance. Trial garden A garden grown specifically for the purpose of testing and evaluating plants is called a trial garden. Universities, plant breeders, and garden-industry companies frequently have trial gardens, as do many private and public botanical gardens and professional garden journalists. In the classic trials model, newly developed varieties of plants are compared with the closest similar industry standard plant throughout their life cycle—from germination/propagation