Doris Duke Center Gardens

Developed over time to serve as the perfect complement to the Doris Duke Center, the Doris Duke Center Gardens include several distinct garden areas.

The Virtue Peace Pond and the Page-Rollins White Garden adjoin the Angle Amphitheater, the setting for many performances, weddings and other special events. From there, stroll through the Spring Woodland Garden to the Charlotte Brody Discovery Garden, or follow the East Meets West Garden to the Asiatic Arboretum.

Enjoy these Doris Duke Center Gardens highlights, which are featured on the Gardens map below.

A wooden garden gatehouse with pink flowering shrubs around it.

Virtue Peace Pond

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A couple sits together in a wooden pavilion; an example of the formal portraiture covered by Duke Gardens' photography policies.

Angle Amphitheater

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Zinnias and other flowers in front of a wooden tobacco barn in the Discovery Garden

Charlotte Brody Discovery Garden

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A ravine filled with ferns and other lush green plants, with a wooden boardwalk running down the center and an iron bridge in the background

Doris Duke Center

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An arched red bridge with a reflection in a large pond, with trees all around and a Japanese lantern sculpture to the left of the bridge.

Page-Rollins White Garden

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A close-up image of pink peony flowers in full bloom

Spring Woodland Garden

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A close-up image of the torreya evergreen plant

Welch Woodland Garden Overlook & Stream

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A stone garden patio with two Adirondack chairs, a wooden trellis with climbing clematis flowers and a small stone garden fountain in the distance.

East Meets West Garden

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Duke Gardens map with the Doris Duke Center Gardens highlighted in green

Developed over time to serve as the perfect complement to the Doris Duke Center, the Doris Duke Center Gardens include several distinct garden areas.

The Virtue Peace Pond and the Page-Rollins White Garden adjoin the Angle Amphitheater, the setting for many performances, weddings and other special events. From there, stroll through the Spring Woodland Garden to the Charlotte Brody Discovery Garden, or follow the East Meets West Garden to the Asiatic Arboretum.

Enjoy these Doris Duke Center Gardens highlights, which are featured on the Gardens map below.

A wooden garden gatehouse with pink flowering shrubs around it.

Virtue Peace Pond

Gardens Map D1

A couple sits together in a wooden pavilion; an example of the formal portraiture covered by Duke Gardens' photography policies.

Angle Amphitheater

Gardens Map D1

Zinnias and other flowers in front of a wooden tobacco barn in the Discovery Garden

Charlotte Brody Discovery Garden

Gardens Map D3. Learn More >

A ravine filled with ferns and other lush green plants, with a wooden boardwalk running down the center and an iron bridge in the background

Doris Duke Center

Gardens Map D4

An arched red bridge with a reflection in a large pond, with trees all around and a Japanese lantern sculpture to the left of the bridge.

Page-Rollins White Garden

Gardens Map D5. Learn More >

A close-up image of pink peony flowers in full bloom

Spring Woodland Garden

Gardens Map D6

A close-up image of the torreya evergreen plant

Welch Woodland Garden Overlook & Stream

Gardens Map D7

A stone garden patio with two Adirondack chairs, a wooden trellis with climbing clematis flowers and a small stone garden fountain in the distance.

East Meets West Garden

Gardens Map D8

Duke Gardens map with the Doris Duke Center Gardens highlighted in green

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The produce from the Charlotte Brody Discovery Garden is donated to local families through a partnership with Iglesia Presbiteriana Emanuel. You can help community members in need by leaving the plants in the ground to grow.

Learn How You Can Help Local Families ›

Plant Highlights in the Doris Duke Center Gardens

Evergreen needles of Duke Gardens plum yew.

‘Duke Gardens’ Plum Yew

Cephalotaxis harringtonia
'Duke Gardens'

A row of dwarf boxwood plants in a formal garden.

‘Little Missy’ Boxwood

Buxus microphylla
‘Little Missy’

A conical bunch of small white flowers on a tree branch, with deep green leaves and more flowers higher on the branch. Background is deep green in soft focus.

‘Natchez’ crapemyrtle

Lagerstroemia
‘Natchez’

Close-up of Algerian iris flower.

Iris unguicularis

20 long, white bell-shaped flowers hang down from leafy stems in a garden.

Angel’s Trumpet

Brugmansia

A trained weeping bald cypress over a staircase.

Bald Cypress (Weeping)

Taxodium distichum
‘Cascade Falls’

Leafy foliage of cast iron plant.

Cast Iron Plant

Aspidistra elatior

Low-growing clumps of Cherokee sedge in a woodland setting.

Carex cherokeensis

A Gothic-style wooden garden pergola with tall brown-toned ornamental grasses growing in the foreground.

Chinese Silver Grass

Miscanthus sinensis

Windmill Palm

Chinese Windmill Palm

Trachycarpus fortunei

Creeping fig on Duke stone

Ficus pumila

Close-up of a white-petaled lily flower with red stamen, and a soft-focus dark green background.

Crinum asiaticum

Bicolor needles of dwarf tigertail spruce.

Dwarf Tigertail Spruce

Picea
‘Howell’s Dwarf’

Close-up of dozens of pale pink flowers and hot pink buds on a tree.

Flowering Crabapple

Malus

Close-up of snowdrop flowers in a woodland setting.

Galanthus elwesii

Close-up of a dozen pale purple-pink flowers, with pine straw and brown leaves in the background.

Cyclamen

Close-up of a large red hibiscus flower with purple leaves, and green leaves in the background.

Hibiscus

Extreme close-up of medium pink toned flower petals with deeper pink striations.

Hybrid Hellebore

Helleborus × hybridus

Close-up of two blooming hyacinth plants, each with groups of white flowers on it and deep green leaves, with woodchips and shrubs in the background.

Hybrid Hyacinth

Hyacinthus orientalis

Close-up of a deep purple iris with white and purple fringed edges along the petals, with more flowers in soft focus in the background.

Japanese Roof Iris

Iris tectorum

Heart-shaped foliage of leopard plants beside a flowing stream.

Farfugium japonicum

Close-up of a pink and white lotus flower with a yellow center and a bee collecting pollen.

Nelumbo nucifera

Two images of pink banana flowers and fruit.

Musa velutina

Water plants in a pond

Powdery Alligator-Flag

Thalia dealbata

Five white flowers and another five buds on slim branches with a soft-focus deep green background.

Magnolia stellata
‘Royal Star’

A bumblebee on weeping rostrinucula flowers.

Weeping Rostrinucula

Rostrinucula dependens

Questions about the Doris Duke Center Gardens?

Please contact us at gardens@duke.edu.