Providence Journal photo / Bob Thayer
URI Pharmacy students and children from the URI Child Development Center plant medicinal vegetation in one of the many new medicinal growing plots at URI Friday. Click for more photos of URI's new Medicinal garden.
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- The University of Rhode Island and the State Council on the Arts celebrated the grand opening today of the new Pharmacy Courtyard and Heber W. Youngken Jr. Medicinal Plant Garden, built just steps from the college's new $75-million home.
URI and arts council officials joined Friends of the Heber W. Youngken Jr. Medicinal Plant Garden, the Youngken Foundation, the URI Foundation and others Friday during a ceremonial planting to open the garden.
The garden, which was located outside the college's former home, Fogarty Hall, for most of its life, was virtually hidden from the larger campus community. The new courtyard and garden has 200 medicinal plants, 500 ornamental plants, 9 birch trees, grassy areas, walkways, and a translucent sculptural frieze.
Providence Journal photo / Bob Thayer
Two-year-old Hudson Wagner of Burlington, Vermont, investigates some of the new gardens designed by his dad, H. Keith Wagner, at URI in Kingston Friday.