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With fewer visitors on weekdays, now is a great time to enjoy the springtime beauty of Duke Gardens. Photo by Travis Stanley.

The Lewis Street entrance will serve as one of the open gateways to Duke Gardens during construction. Photo by Bill Snead/University Communications and Marketing

A new birdwatching group at Duke aims to open opportunities for watching nature to underrepresented groups. Photo by Chis Vilorio

an artist rendition of the aerial view of the Gardens Gateway Project.

Self-described ‘chocolate botanist’ Derek Haynes talks about the rich history of the vanilla plant at Sarah P. Duke Gardens.

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Richard White’s career as a botany professor and undergraduate education administrator spanned more than 50 years at Duke.

Chizuko Sueyoshi, leader of the Japanese Tea Practitioners of Durham, hosts a traditional Japanese tea gathering for Yuko Kishida, spouse of the prime minister of Japan; Kristin Cooper, first lady of North Carolina; and Mio (Yamamoto) Maeda, spouse of the consul general of Japan in Atlanta, in the Durham-Toyama Sister Cities Tea Pavilion in the Ruth Mary Meyer Japanese Garden, which is part of the Culberson Asiatic Arboretum in Sarah P. Duke Gardens. Photo by Jared Lazarus

Fun events at Duke in March include, clockwise from top left, the quiet afternoons at the Duke Campus Farm, a guided tour of Duke Gardens, an open house at the Duke Lemur Center Museum, a talk by author T. Kingfisher and performances by the Ciompi Quartet and guest Allan Ware. Submitted photos.