Welcome to Reynolda Gardens, located in Winston Salem, NC. Back in the early 1900's, Richard J. Reynolds and his wife Katharine S. Reynolds built Reynolda House, which included a 1067 acre estate. Those acres housed the immense manor, a working farm, and 129 acres that were cultivated into a huge garden area consisting of greenhouses, vegetable gardens, floral gardens, and water gardens. Upon the death of the Reynolds', the home and land passed to their daughter, Mary Reynolds Babcock. The garden area was deeded to Wake Forest University in 1961 to insure that it would remain available to the public for viewing and education. Unfortunately, since today is Sunday, the greenhouses and indoor gardens were not open...which just gives me an excuse to go back on a Saturday for even more photos. (To learn more about Reynolda Gardens, click here: Reynolda Gardens History.)
Welcome to the outside Gardens...
A large section of blue flowers just inside the entry to the outside Gardens.
I'm not quite sure what this plant is, but it was pretty...
This is one of my favorites of the pictures I took today...I love the different shades in the blossoms on this weeping cherry tree...
Blooming in the median outside the front of the Gardens are pink and yellow tulips...with the wind blowing as strong as it was today it was difficult to get a good picture, but I did get one of a pink tulip (above) and a close up of the inside of the same tulip (below).
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