The Rose Garden displays in promenade fashion a variety of modern roses which are considered to be among the best for the Sandhills region.

The Annual Garden is the only garden that is totally different each year. Designs are selected well in advance so students can propagate and have plants ready on a schedule resulting in a variety of colors, textures, and heights. A different surprise theme is introduced each year.

The Conifer Garden features varieties of slow-growing conifers that reflect color, form, and texture of foliage not often viewed in the southern states in such a fine collection.

The Sir Walter Raleigh Garden occupies more that an acre of land. It is a formal English garden which was designed and constructed to commemorate the attempted colonization of Roanoke Island in 1584. This garden includes several mini gardens including the Holly Maze, the Fountain Courtyard, the Sunken Garden, the Ceremonial Courtyard, and the Herb Garden.

The Atkins Hillside Garden includes a winding river rock stream with five bridges, waterfalls, pools, and the Falls Overlook, a gazebo surrounded by diverse plant material. The gazebo provides space for small outdoor lectures or quiet repose and viewing before continuing your visit in the gardens.

The Ebersole Holly Garden, an arboretum certified by the Holly Society of America, is the largest accessible holly collection on the East Coast. Within the collection are 28 holly species and some 350 different cultivars.

The Hackley Woodland Garden consists of a vast array of woodland and shade loving plants. It is mainly a concentration of many varieties of azaleas, camellias, and rhododendrons with other companion plants which have interest throughout the year. Among the plants you will find deciduous hollies, witchhazels, winter daphne, hosta, helleborus, and astilbe.

The Fruit & Vegetable Garden includes an orchard of dwarf fruit trees, vegetables, and a vineyard.

The Desmond Native Wetland Trail Garden is a nature conservancy and bird sanctuary with boardwalk meandering among old poplars, pines, and plant material indigenous to wetland areas of the Sandhills.

The Succulent Garden is designed to show the use of succulents usually found in a Southwest desert setting, but are perfectly happy in the Sandhills region of North Carolina. The walls surrounding the garden produce a microclimate making some marginally hardy plants capable of surviving in our environment. The area is mulched with various size stones that retain heat very much like the desert.