Fair Garden Photo Gallery

The Reid Chapter was invited to create a permanent display in the Flower Show area of the North Carolina State Fair in 2006. With incredible help from Stefan Bloodworth, then curator of the Bloomquist native garden at Duke University, volunteers from the chapter and Duke University took on the project.

  • John Buettner invited us to take on this garden
    John Buettner invited us to take on this garden
  • photo of old Grass Garden
    The area we started with.
  • old water feature at Fair
    what an ugly water feature!
  • out with the old
    out with the old!
The beginning on 8/30/2006.
  • tying crossvine
    Margaret and Chery tie crossvine
  • Digging up unwanted liriope
    Monika digs out liriope
  • More volunteers
    Jeff and Charlie
  • new water feature and volunteers
    Proud of the new water feature!
On September 11, 2006 much progress was made!
  • laying plastic to protect the work
    laying plastic to protect the work
  • Jeff & Stefan
    Stefan and Jeff
  • finishing the new water feature
    finishing new water feature
  • water feature completed
    water feature completed
Water feature completed 9/19/06
  • planting new Fair garden
    Planting new Fair garden
  • Jeff does it all!
    Jeff does it all!
  • many plant donations from Duke University
    many plant donations from Duke University
  • Our beautiful native garden!
    Our beautiful native garden!
Planting done in time to open for the 2006 North Carolina State Fair.