The garden, restored and maintained by Hillside Garden Club, includes Spencer's own roses, as well as lilac, bulbs, peonies, iris and daylilies. Wisteria and vintage grapes climb the arbors and a colorful pond is alive with goldfish and an historic fountain head. Push button speakers and on-site brochures enhance the visitor's visit.

Over 60 varieties are planted in rows, and labeled with their common and botanical names. Every season offers an opportunity to learn about the selected varieties, including tree shape, bark texture, leaf, flower, and berry color.

Close by is the newly established Dinwiddie Arboretum which represents great community involvement by individuals and civic groups from Altavista, and includes over 50 varieties of exotic and native trees and shrubs, memorial garden areas, and a pond.

Central to the naturalistic design is Lalla's Bell, rung in celebration of a life or a stage of treatment in the quest for victory over cancer. Colorful annual flower displays enhance the handsome arbor, the playful fountain, the perennial beds and butterfly garden. Tall native trees form a peaceful backdrop for the garden.

Four ascending monoliths represent four virtues symbolic of Cheatham's life principles. The formal monolith design is softened by curving brick walks and walls, native boxwood, American holly trees and white azaleas. The garden features spring bulbs and peonies, summer annuals, and a beautiful fall foliage display.

An antebellum farmhouse at Cloverlea Gardens includes formal rose and perennial gardens, an infinity pond and spectacular views of the Peaks of Otter. A fenced one acre research and demonstration garden supports the Beautiful Gardens™ program, which develops new cultivars of trees, shrubs and flowers.

Spring brings drifts of Virginia bluebells, Catawba rhododendron, azaleas, and mountain laurel. Native coreopsis, cone flower, and bee balm abound in summer, while in autumn, cardinal flowers, great blue lobelias, and witch hazel bloom alongside the pond, followed by deciduous hollies and winterberry.

The charming garden was designed by famed Virginia landscape architect Charles Gillette and with modifications has been maintained by the Lynchburg Garden Club since 1940. An English boxwood parterre, native dogwood, peonies, lilac and bulbs enhance the stone terrace and paths and are sheltered by a stately Tulip Poplar tree.

The Richard S. Reynolds Sr. garden has colorful annual plantings that mimic the colors and shape of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force patch. Along with abundant memorials, visitors to the Blue Star and Gold Star gardens find lush perennial beds that brighten quiet sitting areas created to honor those who served or gave their lives in service to our country.

Visitors can wander the brick pathways, enjoying the large, specimen trees, old boxwoods, and the many perennial flowers while they learn about the history of the cemetery, including the five museums and Confederate section, the Old Potter’s Fields, and the modern scatter garden.

The beautiful rain gardens are designed to capture, hold back, and filter storm water before it is released to the nearby James River. Plants include Black-eyed Susan, Virginia Sweetspire, Joe-Pye Weed, Stokes Aster, River Oats, Purple Love Grass, American Elm, Red Oak, and Downy Serviceberry.

Daisy's Garden honors the child of the college founders and adjoins Sweet Briar House, home of the College President. Old-growth hardwood forests define the campus entrance and the passage to Monument Hill where Daisy's grave is surrounded by a wisteria-covered stone wall, ancient plantings and a scenic campus view.

Beyond this ornamental landscape nearest Jefferson's villa retreat were the agricultural fields containing orchards, vegetable gardens, slave quarters, and farm-related buildings. Detailed brochures and GPS-guided audio/visual walking tours allow visitors to see into the future and enjoy the ongoing restorative plantings.

Brick-lined annual and perennial beds have been newly established along with the addition of choice species of ornamental shrubs and trees. A garden in memory of physician and daylily hybridizer Dr. John Wente features some of his best unnamed Hemerocallis hybrids.