“Behind the scenes” at the Grace Arents Garden
The Grace Arents Garden was the first project at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden after it opened to the public in 1987, according to an article in the April issue of R Home, Richmond Magazine’s home and garden supplement. The garden was restored by the Garden Club of Virginia in 1990. “The work was based on […]
The Grace Arents Garden was the first project at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden after it opened to the public in 1987, according to an article in the April issue of R Home, Richmond Magazine’s home and garden supplement. The garden was restored by the Garden Club of Virginia in 1990.
“The work was based on come photographs that the Valentine History Center had of the garden from the 1920s, when Grace Arents lived here,” [Frank] Robinson [the garden’s executive director] says. Lewis Ginter had willed the property to Arents, his niece, and her Victorian-style garden, featuring arbors and a gazebo, is adjacent to Bloemendaal House, which she eventually made her home.
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