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Gateway Gardens

The Gateway Gardens, formerly named the Doris Duke Center Gardens, include several distinct garden areas that have developed over time to serve as the perfect complement to the Doris Duke Center and Barnes Welcome Center.

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 Gateway Gardens highlights, which are featured on the Gardens map below.

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

Angle Amphitheater & 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.

Barnes Welcome Center

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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 large wooden chicken coop with six chickens outside it and rosemary and other plants growing around it.

Chicken Coop

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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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A close-up image of the torreya evergreen plant

Event Lawn & Gardens

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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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An adult sits in a wooden chair in an outdoor patio holding a book that four children are looking at as they sit on tree stumps. Several other adults look on, and there's a colorful cabinet in the background.

Story Circle

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A close-up image of the torreya evergreen plant

Welch Woodland Garden Overlook & Stream

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

The Gateway Gardens (previously named the Doris Duke Center Gardens) include several distinct garden areas that have developed over time to serve as the perfect complement to the Doris Duke Center and Barnes Welcome Center.

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 Gateway Gardens highlights, which are featured on the Gardens map below.

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

Angle Amphitheater & Virtue Peace Pond

Gardens Map 401

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

Barnes Welcome Center

Gardens Map 402. Learn More > 

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

Charlotte Brody Discovery Garden

Gardens Map 403.  Learn More >

A large wooden chicken coop with six chickens outside it and rosemary and other plants growing around it.

Chicken Coop

Gardens Map 404

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 405. Learn More >

A close-up image of the torreya evergreen plant

Event Lawn & Gardens

Gardens Map 406. Learn More >

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 407.  Learn More >

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

Spring Woodland Garden

Gardens Map 408

An adult sits in a wooden chair in an outdoor patio holding a book that four children are looking at as they sit on tree stumps. Several other adults look on, and there's a colorful cabinet in the background.

Story Circle

Gardens Map 409. Learn More >

A close-up image of the torreya evergreen plant

Welch Woodland Garden Overlook & Stream

Gardens Map 410

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 Gateway Gardens

 

Evergreen needles of Duke Gardens plum yew.
‘Duke Gardens’ Plum Yew
Cephalotaxis harringtonia
'Duke Gardens'
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A row of dwarf boxwood plants in a formal garden.
‘Little Missy’ Boxwood
Buxus microphylla
‘Little Missy’
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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’
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Close-up of Algerian iris flower.
Algerian Iris
Iris unguicularis
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20 long, white bell-shaped flowers hang down from leafy stems in a garden.
Angel’s Trumpet
Brugmansia
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A trained weeping bald cypress over a staircase.
Bald Cypress (Weeping)
Taxodium distichum
‘Cascade Falls’
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Leafy foliage of cast iron plant.
Cast Iron Plant
Aspidistra elatior
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Low-growing clumps of Cherokee sedge in a woodland setting.
Cherokee Sedge
Carex cherokeensis
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Chinese evergreen oak leaves.
Chinese Evergreen Oak
Quercus myrsinifolia
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A Gothic-style wooden garden pergola with tall brown-toned ornamental grasses growing in the foreground.
Chinese Silver Grass
Miscanthus sinensis
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Windmill Palm
Chinese Windmill Palm
Trachycarpus fortunei
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Creeping fig on Duke stone
Creeping Fig
Ficus pumila
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Close-up of a white-petaled lily flower with red stamen, and a soft-focus dark green background.
Crinum Lily
Crinum asiaticum
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Bicolor needles of dwarf tigertail spruce.
Dwarf Tigertail Spruce
Picea
‘Howell’s Dwarf’
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Close-up of dozens of pale pink flowers and hot pink buds on a tree.
Flowering Crabapple
Malus
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Close-up of snowdrop flowers in a woodland setting.
Giant Snowdrop
Galanthus elwesii
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Close-up of a dozen pale purple-pink flowers, with pine straw and brown leaves in the background.
Hardy Cyclamen
Cyclamen
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Close-up of a large red hibiscus flower with purple leaves, and green leaves in the background.
Hibiscus
Hibiscus
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Extreme close-up of medium pink toned flower petals with deeper pink striations.
Hybrid Hellebore
Helleborus × hybridus
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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
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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
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Heart-shaped foliage of leopard plants beside a flowing stream.
Leopard Plant
Farfugium japonicum
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Lilac daphne flowers
Lilac Daphne
Daphne genkwa
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Close-up of a pink and white lotus flower with a yellow center and a bee collecting pollen.
Lotus
Nelumbo nucifera
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Bunchgrass with pink seedheads
Muhly Grass, Pink
Muhlenbergia capillaris
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Two images of pink banana flowers and fruit.
Pink Banana
Musa velutina
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Water plants in a pond
Powdery Alligator-Flag
Thalia dealbata
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Pink sedum flowers
Showy Stonecrop
Hylotelephium (Sedum) spectabile
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Five white flowers and another five buds on slim branches with a soft-focus deep green background.
Star Magnolia
Magnolia stellata
‘Royal Star’
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Two toad lily flowers in bloom.
Toad Lily
Tricyrtis spp.
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A bumblebee on weeping rostrinucula flowers.
Weeping Rostrinucula
Rostrinucula dependens
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Questions about the Gateway Gardens?

Please contact us at gardens@duke.edu.