Reiman Gardens
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Reiman Gardens (14 acres) are located south of Jack Trice Stadium on the Iowa State University campus in Ames, Iowa. They are open seven days per week, all year, during business hours. An admission fee is charged.
The university has had a horticulture garden since 1914; Reiman Gardens is the third location. Today's gardens began in 1993 with a gift from Roy and Bobbi Reiman. Construction began in 1994 and the garden's initial 5 acres were officially dedicated in 1995. Landscape design was performed by Rodney Robinson Landscape Architects. The gardens currently include:
- Christina Reiman Butterfly Wing - a 2,500-square-foot indoor tropical garden containing butterflies from six continents.
- Conservatory Complex - a 5,000-square-foot conservatory of tropical plants and seasonal plant displays.
- Dunlap Courtyard Garden - bulb plantings and catalpa trees.
- Helen Latch Jones Rose Garden - over 2,000 rose plants, representing 254 different varieties. This garden received the All-America Rose Selections (AARS) President's Award, given annually to a single public garden.
- Hillside Garden - dwarf conifer varieties in an alpine garden setting.
- Lake Helen - over 12 species of hybrid Victoria waterlilies and two Euryales. Victoria waterlilies may eventually grow up to 20 feet in diameter.
- Margaret E. Penkhus Campanile Garden - a 50-foot steel structure with electronic carillon.
- Patty Jischke Children's Garden - Iowa farmstead theme, including a stock tank, scarecrow garden, covered bridge, corn crib pavilion and stream garden.
- South Field Trial Beds - fourteen 14’ by 14’ quilt patterns grown from bedding plants including vinca, coleus, curry, bugleweed, sweet potatoes, and ornamental peppers. Quilt patterns include Wedding Ring, Maple Leaf, Weather Vane, Grandmother’s Fan, Double Pinwheel, and Windmill’s Crossing.
- Stafford Arboretum Garden - sycamore trees (planted circa 1920s), with wooden boardwalk and wetland bog garden.
- Town and Country Garden - 12 demonstration gardens for common gardening uses.
- Wetland Garden - water-loving cultivars.
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