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
1931 Brookgreen Gardens Dr Murrells Inlet, SC 29576
Pre-visit:
- Archer Huntington was the founder and quoted saying "Quiet joining of hands between science and art."
- More than 500 pieces of 19th century and 20th century American sculpture.
- Archer Huntington was married to Anna Hyatt Huntington in 1923.
- Anna was one of America's premier sculptors.
- Huntington had commissioned Anna to design a medal for William Dean Howells.
- Huntington's first heard of Brookgreen plantation and bought it and surrounded land about 9000 acres.
- Many features of the old plantation were used, including some of the original plantings, natural forests and swamp areas.
- They decided that stone and metal sculptures were best suited for the garden.
During Visit:
- Winding openwork brick wall
- Walls laid out in the shape of a huge butterfly with outspread wings
- large formal garden
- Dogwood garden
- Magnolia allee
- Saint James triad
- Palmetto garden
- memorial garden
- long expanses of lawn
- Heron,grouse and look
- Don quixote
- large live oak avenue
- anna's first statue youth taming the wild
- diana of the chase
- brown sculpture court
- rosen carolina terrace
- gretchen's garden
- Dionysus
- time and the fates of man
- pegasus
- gazelle fountain
- carolines garden
- old kitchen
- fountain of the muses
Plant List:
- Magnolias
- oleander
- carolina jessamine
- oaks
- live oak
- tulips
- holly
- saw palmetto
- azalea
- rhododendron
- crepe myrtle
- liriope
- creeping fig
- ornamental cabbage
- pansy
- fatsia
- redbud
- boxwood
- ivy
- palmetto
- narcissus
- flowering quince
- gilanthus
- camellia
- ligustrum
- nandina
Circulation: stone concrete brick
Essence: Elegant statuesque landscape
Post-Visit:
- The circulation was amazing compared to Middleton.
- Beautiful sculpture against the native landscape.
- Statues tucked away and in plane sight
- Lots of spanish moss showcasing statues
- wonderful people work there
