Botanical garden

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Monticello is home to the area's only botanical garden[1].

McIntire Park proposals

As of 2011 there are two groups, McIntire Botanical Garden and Charlottesville Botanical Garden, each with separate proposals for the creation of a new botanic garden in the east end of McIntire Park, precipitated by the construction of McIntire Road Extended through the park[citation needed]. The Coalition to Preserve McIntire Park believes the gardens should be created on the site of the Rock Hill Gardens[2].

History

According Lily Fox-Bruguiere, a graduate student at the University of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson originally planned a botanical garden at UVa and got as far as appointing someone to oversee the plans before he died[3].

According to Sallie Brown, in the 1930s, there was a bird and wildflower garden in McIntire Park, built as a Work Progress Administration project[4].

References

  1. Web. Virginia Garden Websites, GardenSites.com, Minneapolis, MN, 2009, retrieved May 8 2011.
  2. Web. Clean Up Effort Continues at Charlottesville's Rock Hill Gardens, Liz Palka, newsplex.com, Gray Media, May 30, 2010
  3. Web. Charlottesville-Right Now: Lily Fox-Bruguiere, Charlottesville Podcasting Network, Charlottesville Tomorrow, 24 June 2009, retrieved May 8 2011.
  4. Web. Idea blooms for McIntire botanical garden, Rosen, Seth, Daily Progress, Lee Enterprises, 22 June 2008, retrieved 22 June 2009.