october 2014 GARDENS seasonally, with the Airlie Oak, Pergola Garden and other areas blooming continuously year-round. Visitors’ favor-ites include the Tranquility Garden, which is aflutter with hundreds of butterflies, and the Minnie Evans Sculpture Garden’s Bottle Chapel, built by volunteers in 2003. Hours, special events and admission costs are listed at www.airliegardens.org BURGWIN-WRIGHT HOUSE Take a self-guided tour through this colonial-style garden at the historic Burgwin-Wright House that comple-ments its finely dressed Georgian residence. Designed by two of Colonial Williamsburg’s renowned landscape HARBOR WAY GARDENS Take the kids on a stroll through Harbor Way Gardens’ 36,400-square-foot public garden. Enjoy colorful butterfly benches, an interac-tive water feature, a variety of coastal trees, plantings and an engraved brick pathway. Linger in the all-pink Breast Cancer Awareness Month flower garden. Located between the entrance to Wrightsville Beach from Harbor Island and the firehouse, the gardens were built and are maintained by local volunteers. For more information, visit the Harbor Island Garden Club website, www.harborislandgardenclub.com NEW HANOVER COUNTY ARBORETUM Visit this beautifully landscaped, ever expanding 7-acre stretch of plants and flowers. New additions include a picnic area, a Japanese tea garden and a tropical palm garden. The arboretum serves as a horticultural laboratory for the New Hanover County Cooperative Extension and is maintained by local volunteers. For more information, visit www.arboretum.nhcgov.com AIRLIE GARDENS Walk the trails of Airlie Gardens and see varied wildlife, preserved historic structures and the famous 467-year-old Airlie Oak. Displays change 82 WBM Airlie Gardens offers space for quiet reflection and nature observation. Two Monarch butterflies perch on a flower at the Airlie Gardens Butterfly House.
October 2014
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