Wilmot Gardens Restoration Project
Wilmot Gardens once provided a peaceful place for patients and students to stroll and reflect. Please join us as we unite to restore this beautiful site so patients and our UF and Gainesville community can once again enjoy the healing value of nature's gentle reminder of hope. The gardens are located north of the Judith and Jerry Davis Cancer Pavilion in the UF & Shands Medical Plaza. As the Southeast's largest academic medical center, our patients come from every county in Florida, as well as surrounding states and countries to seek medical care from UF specialists. The gardens once served as a relaxing place for faculty, students, staff, patients and their families to stroll and reflect in times of crisis or loss or rejoice when they realized they could be counted amongst the survivors of diseases and illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, or diseases that require amputation or transplantation. We can only hope that with your help we also will celebrate the cure for some of life's most devastating and destructive diseases, i.e., cancers, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's. Our dream for Wilmot Gardens is much the same as our dream for our patients. We dream of restoring this once vibrant gardens to a place that radiates life, love, growth, peace and nature at it's best.
Wilmot Gardens has the potential - with your help - to once again be classified amongst the living; to become a survivor. Wilmot Gardens can be restored after being devoured by the Southern pine beetle then ravaged by back-to- back hurricane seasons that left much of the Southeast in ruins. The gardens can become a place for celebration: weddings, picnics, reunions and commencements. The gardens of 5 acres also will serve as an important educational environment - a living classroom - for students, gardeners, patients and nature lovers.
The Wilmot Gardens' mission is to create a place where nature helps to heal the body and mind. Your support for the restoration of Wilmot Gardens can renew and rejuvenate this gem on the University of Florida medical campus.
To discuss a larger gift appreciated assets, estate planning and/or naming opportunities please contact our Development and Alumni Affairs Office at 352-273-7986 or 1-877-DrG-ator (1-877-374-2867).
