Old Salem

Old Salem Museums & Gardens 600 South Main St. Winston-Salem, NC 27101


Pre-visit:

• Cape Fear Bank Garden:  - served the banker and family   -planted in 1847   -less emphasis on vegetables and more on ornamental
• Leinbach Garden:  -Shoemaker  -apprentices worked in garden  -1822  -terraces  -kept a garden journal
• Levering Gardens:  -small  -1820  -arbor with catawba grapes
• Miksch Garden:   -1782  -espailered pears and peaches  -herb borders
• Triebel Garden: -early garden plan and plant list of the upland garden at Bethabra  -rows are laid out diagonal
• Single Brother's Garden:  -newest addition  -1769 single brothers choir made a large terrace behind house  -45 years provided sustenance   -1823 single brothers disbanded
• Volger Garden:  -1840  -tomatoes grow here after 1830 - vegetables and flowers

During Visit:

• Nothing to see here
• Not southern at all
• All production garden
• Colonial life seems boring

Plant List:

• Lettuce
• Cabbage
• Rosemary
• Peach
• Cherry
• Plum
• Grape vine
• Ivy
• Lavender
• crepe myrtle

Essence: Colonial production
Circulation: stone and brick


Post Visit:

• I will not be going here again
• Gardens barren
• Nothing to see
• Food not as good as I remember
• Field trip in elementary school was enough for me