Floral “Galaxy Garden model of Milky Way

This is the Galaxy Garden at the Paleaku Peace Garden on the Big Island of Hawaii. It semi-realistically maps the Milky Way's actual spiral arms at a scale of 1' = 1000 lightyears. Specific species of flowers represent types of nebulae, and there is an onyx hyperbola-shaped water fountain in the center representing the Sgr A* bla k hole and its jet.