The Fruit of 麻豆破解版 Gardens
Roland Vonder Muhll, UVA Horticulturalist:
The majority of the gardens bordering the Lawn have edible plants in them, whether it鈥檚 kitchen herbs or fruit trees and some berry bushes. There鈥檚 also a couple grapevines right here that occasionally produce a few grapes.
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With any type of fruit, if it鈥檚 ripe, it鈥檒l roll off into your hand pretty easily. That鈥檚 a little sweetness to it.
When school starts in late August, that鈥檚 an ideal time for picking apples, pears, figs. The peaches and plums will probably be gone, but if you come back early, you might find them. There鈥檚 something to find in almost every garden.
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When the University was founded, people didn鈥檛 go to a dining hall that had food brought into it by trucks, there were actually kitchen gardens behind the residences.
There were enslaved laborers who were working in the gardens, and some of the old structures right next to the gardens are structures that enslaved laborers lived in.
This current planting of fruit trees and berry bushes came as a result of the Garden Club of Virginia getting involved in restoring the gardens in the 1960s.
It鈥檚 special being in a nice, quiet enclosed area with the beauty of University Grounds. It鈥檚 like a little quiet refuge amid the larger busyness of the University.
