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Gardens and Nature Preserve Tour

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Tour Description:
Walking visits to Sandhills Horticultural Gardens and Weymouth Woods.

Sandhills Horticultural Gardens:
Sandhills Community College was chartered on November 7, 1963. Five years later the Landscape Gardening School was initiated. In 1978 the Sandhills Horticultural Gardens became a reality with the establishment of the Ebersole Holly Garden (the largest accessible holly collection on the East Coast). Over the years, additional gardens have been implemented, including the Rose Garden, the Conifer Garden, the Sir Walter Raleigh Garden, the Hillside Garden, the Fruit & Vegetable Garden, the Succulent Garden, and the Desmond Native Wetland Trail Garden. Today the Sandhills Horticultural Gardens cover twenty-seven acres. The Gardens are a result of many years of care from students in the Horticultural/Landscaping degree program.

The Weymouth Woods, a nature preserve with 517 acres of long leaf pines, is dedicated to preserve the delicate ecosystem in the Sandhills, and the home of the endangered Red-cockaded Woodpecker, carnivorous plants, and wetlands. Most of the acres were donated in 1963 by Mrs. James Boyd, wife of the late North Carolina author.

A guide will accompany the group, but there will be plenty of time to enjoy a stroll through on your own.