Growth of Accolades for the Amazingly Delightful Duke Gardens

The Greenpal Website recently featured an article titled, “The 35 Most Pristine College Campuses in America” and did you know that the #1 spot went to none other than Durham’s Duke University? After looking through thousands of college campuses, bragging rights goes to the 8,500-acre Duke University campus.

Greenpal stated that the reason Duke topped the list was (in addition to its outstanding architecture), the 55-acre Sarah P. Duke Gardens which features four magnificent horticulturally-distinct and delightful Duke gardens each with their own unique areas:

• The Blomquist Garden of Native Plants is a 6.5 acre garden with other 900 species of native  NC plants 
  • Bird Viewing Shelter
    Blomquist Gatehouse
    Blomquist Pavilion
    Carnivorous Plant Bog
    Edwin F. Steffek Jr. Bridge & Fern Grotto
    McNabb Family Bridge & Stream
    Piedmont Prairie and Classroom
    Steve Church Endangered Species Garden
    36th Parallel Latitude Marker
    Wildlife Garden
• The Culberson Asiatic Arboretum is a highly refined garden of flowering plants from Southeast Asia and pond featuring a variety of waterfowl as well as Asian garden accents like stepping stones paths and arched bridges
  • Arboretum Entrance
    Arched Bridge
    Chinese Garden (future)
    Durham-Toyama Sister Cities Japanese Pavilion & Garden
    Pine Clouds Mountain Stream (Sho Un Kei)
    Garden for Peace
    Moss Garden
    Peonies
    Waterfowl Observation Area
    Zig-zag Bridge
• The Doris Duke Center Gardens feature a relaxing, beautiful garden of white flowers, a peaceful water lily pond as well as a woodland garden with recirculating stream and a sustainable, organic food garden 
  • Angle Amphitheater & Virtue Peace Pond
    Beverly and Bert Welch Woodland Garden Overlook & Stream
    Burpee Learning Center
    Charlotte Brody Discovery Garden
    Doris Duke Center / Terrace Gift Shop
    Page-Rollins White Garden / Gothic Pavilion
    Spring Woodland Garden
• The Historic gardens offer iconic views of Italianete terraces, the century-old Roney Fountain, acclaimed artist Patrick Dougherty’s “Big Easy” sculpture, a fish pool, and pergola
  • Azalea Court
    Bartter Family Terrace House / Café (seasonal)
    Dawn Redwood
    Fisher Amphitheater
    Frances P. Rollins Overlook
    Hanes Iris Garden
    Historic Terraces & Fish Pool
    Iris Bridge
    Leubuscher Rock Garden
    Mary Duke Biddle Rose Garden / Roney Fountain
    Memorial Garden
    Pergola
    President’s Bridge
    Spengler Camellia Garden
    Sundial & Butterfly Garden
    Walker Dillard Kirby Perennial Allée

Other Recent Accolades for The Sarah P. Duke Gardens:

• “Trips to Discover” named The Sarah P. Duke Gardens one of the five beautiful North Carolina gardens you must visit in the Spring
• Consistently ranked as Durham’s #1 Attraction on TripAdvisor
• Featured in the “Spring in the South” edition of the Southern Lady Classics magazine
• #4 in a USA Today Poll of the Top 10 North Carolina Attractions

Morehead Manor Bed and Breakfast is less than 2 miles away from The Sarah P. Duke Gardens. It usually takes less than seven minutes to drive there. It is hands-down one of the prettiest gardens in the state of North Carolina!