The Meditation Garden was constructed 1964-1965. It includes a circular pool containing circular fountain jets, and a semi-circular pergola of Ionic columns on the south side of the pool with fountains.
The Garden’s centerpiece is a circular twelve-foot fountain pool with five single jets of water and a larger one in the middle all lit by colored floodlights. It includes a circular pool containing circular fountain jets, and a semi-circular pergola of Ionic columns on the south side of the pool with fountains.
A stepped brick wall (Made of Mexican brick) with four arched openings containing stained-glass panels curved to follow the pergola and encloses the Meditation Garden’s south end.
After Elvis’ death, security issues at Forest Hill Cemetery, his original burial site, led to his (and his mother’s) reburial on October 2, 1977 on the south side of the pool with fountains. Elvis’ father Vernon was buried here in 1979, and his grandmother Minnie May Presley followed in 1980. The Meditation Garden also features a marker in memory of Elvis’ still-born twin brother, Jesse Garon.
