- Reynolda Gardens
Reynolda Gardens (129 acres with convert|4|acre|m2 of formal gardens) are gardens located off Reynolda Road, adjacent to the Reynolda campus of
Wake Forest University and theReynolda House in Winston-Salem,North Carolina . The gardens are open daily with free admission.The gardens were originally part of a large country estate and farm (1067 acres) created by tobacco magnate
R. J. Reynolds and his wife Katharine Smith Reynolds between 1906 and 1923. In 1913 theLord & Burnham greenhouse was built to serve the family and farm, and to produce flowers commercially. Landscape architectThomas W. Sears (1880-1966) designed the four-acre formal garden for Mrs. Reynolds, starting in 1915. After the death of Mrs. Reynolds (then remarried as Mrs. Johnston) in 1924, most of the property was gradually sold or given away, including a gift of convert|300|acre|km2 toWake Forest College in the late 1940s for its Winston-Salem campus. In a series of gifts from 1958-1962, their daughter Mary Reynolds Babcock established Reynolda Gardens by donating its property to the college.In 1995 the college and the
National Park Service performed extensive historic reconstruction to return the garden to its original design.Today the gardens include convert|125|acre|km2 of woodlands, fields, wetlands, and a four-acre formal garden with greenhouse. Two acres of the formal gardens comprise the Greenhouse Gardens (designed 1917, 1920, 1931) which centers around a sunken garden divided into four quadrants, with grass lawns, border plantings,
rose gardens, theme gardens, specimen trees, and boxwood hedges, as well as tea-houses, fountains, and pergolas. The other half contains the Fruit, Cut Flower, and Nicer Vegetable Garden (1921), which growsvine s,vegetable s, climbingrose s, and espalieredfruit trees.The entire property also includes a 3/4-mile woodland trail, as well as a slightly longer perimeter trail (1.5 miles).
See also
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List of botanical gardens in the United States External links
* [http://www.reynoldagardens.org/ Reynolda Gardens]
* [http://www.cr.nps.gov/hps/hli/currents/reynolda/intro.htm National Park Service information on Reynolda Gardens]
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