The team at the Gardens has reworked the soil to allow for proper drainage and irrigation and will complete an anti-borer preventative treatment on the trees. Work has been already underway to prepare for the arrival of the trees. The new trees will be about 15 feet tall with a 4- to 5-inch trunk caliper. The same variety will replace what will be removed - Prunus subhirtella ‘Pendula,’ also known as Weeping Higan Cherry. Roethling explained that although an oak can live 100 years, a flowering cherry may only live 25 years.Īn allée is traditionally defined as a feature of the French formal garden that is both a promenade and an extension of a garden view.įorty-four trees will be planted this month to form the allée - six parallel to the greenhouses and 19 along the east and west sides of the greenhouse gardens. “The full cherry tree allée has not been on view as intended in almost 50 years,” said Jon Roethling, director of Reynolda Gardens. Over the years, though, the native cherry trees have aged out, which is very typical of certain ornamental trees, and the mature ones still existing in the garden are at the end of their life.
When the cherry trees are in bloom, thousands of visitors come from all over the country to see it (the Garden).” In 1951 Mary Reynolds Babcock noted “It was said by a Japanese visitor that this(Reynolda’s) planting of weeping Japanese cherry trees with boxwood and magnolia soulangeana and cryptomerias is even more beautiful than any in Japan. The Japanese cherry trees, originally designed by Thomas Sears in 1917 to flank the formal gardens, have long been a Reynolda attraction. and Katharine Smith Reynolds, and daughter of Mary Reynolds and Charles Babcock, was the museum’s founding president and driving force behind the establishment of the Reynolda House art collection.
The cherry tree project was made possible through the support of Barbara and Nik Millhouse.īarbara Babcock Millhouse, granddaughter of R.J. The cherry trees will bloom this Spring in Reynolda Gardens to the north, east and west sides of the formal gardens. (Dec.10, 2020)- Reynolda Gardens of Wake Forest University is reimagining history with the complete renovation of the estate’s weeping cherry trees and the revival of the estate’s original cherry tree allée. Largest display of cherry trees in the Carolinas will be on view this Spring
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