Aldridge Gardens Veterans Memorial Arbor and Pentagon Plaza

Aldridge Gardens is located in Hoover, Alabama and is a 30 acre public garden owned by the City of Hoover. The Gardens is on the former estate of Kay and Eddie Aldridge, an noted Birmingham, Alabama nurseryman who patented the Snowflake Hydrangea. There is a 200' long arbor across the Aldridge Gardens lake dam. The arbor is punctuated in the middle with a plaza displaying all 5 service branch flags and the American flag. The entrance to the arbor is flanked on one end by the Pentagon Plaza, a place where pavers may be engraved honoring or memorializing those who have served. The entrance to the Plaza is "guarded" by busts of service members who have given the ultimate sacrifice in the War on Terror.