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Ormond Memorial Art Museum & Gardens
78 East Granada Boulevard
Ormond Beach, FL 32176
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Email:		 (386) 676-3347
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Museum Hours:
    Monday through Friday
         10am to 4pm
    Saturday & Sunday
        Noon to 4pm
    Closed on major holidays
    and between exhibitions

Museum Admission:
    A $2.00 per person donation
    is requested.
    Museum members, senior
    citizens (60 and older) and
    children admitted at no charge.

The Gardens are available for your enjoyment at no charge and are open from sunrise to sunset daily.

To reserve the Gardens or Gazebo
for weddings or special events call
the City of Ormond Beach's
Leisure Department at
 (386) 676-3250.
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Post-hurricane Restoration Fund

A frog visits the Peacock Fountain poolA hurricane survivor visits the Peacock Fountain

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About the Gardens

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Hurricane season in Ormond Beach started on Friday, August 13, 2004, when Hurricane Charley1 paid a devastating visit.  Three weeks later Hurricane Frances1 came and stayed for almost 36 hours, bringing very heavy rain and more wind-related destruction.  Although Ormond Beach was spared the brunt of Hurricane Ivan1, Ivan circled back across Central Florida, dumping more rain as he headed back into the Gulf of Mexico with Texas in his eyesight.  Most recently, Hurricane Jeanne1 stopped by for a brief visit.  Jeanne had little left to damage in our area.  This group of four hurricanes in a six-week period tied the record for the greatest number of hurricanes to hit the same area in the same year, a record which has been unequaled since 1886.

The Museum and the Emmons Cottage were spared major damage from the hurricanes, however the Gardens are going to require years to fully recover.  A Post-hurricane Restoration Fund has been established to help defray cleanup costs, repair damaged infrastructure such as the irrigation system and waterfall, and replanting of trees.

If you wish to contribute to the Post-hurricane Restoration Fund, please make checks payable to OMAM and mail them to OMAM at 78 E. Granada Blvd, Ormond Beach, FL 32176.  Please enclose a note or print one, telling us your donation is for the Hurricane Restoration Fund.  You may also stop at the Museum during regular business hours to contribute in person.

Below are some "before" and "after" photos of the Gardens.  Click on the small photo for a full-screen view, then click your browser's "Back" button or arrow to return to this page.

 

This is how the waterfall looked on January 29, 2004, seven months before Hurricanes Charley, Frances, and Jeanne hit Ormond Beach.

After the hurricanes the area above the waterfall is now open to more sunlight. The broken trees will provide a home to trunk-nesting birds, and food for insects as the natural process of decay takes place.

Thanks to time, TLC by Make-a-Difference Day volunteers and resident gardener, Janett Van Wicklen, the waterfall is looking nice enough for a wedding photo background, again.

The Gazebo was nearly hidden by the trees and shrubs in this photo from July, 2002.

The Gazebo has lost the lush background trees and the paperbark tree on the right looks worse for the wear.

The structure of the Gazebo now takes center stage. The paperbark tree has sent out new leaves.

The paperbark tree in full leaf, July 2002.

The paperbark tree after two of the four hurricanes.

The slash pine near the main entrance to the Museum is full of needles in this July 2002 photo.

Some of the branches are now missing from the slash pine, and the needle growth has been thinned by the hurricane-force winds.

One of the American elms in full leaf, July 2002.

Missing branches and stripped leaves have left this American elm looking bare.

July 2002 photo of staghorn ferns growing in one of the trees in the Garden.

The ferns have been thinned by the storms, but should recover. The tree is quite barren.

The American Elm and the staghorn ferns were dormant when this photo was taken, however they will begin to grow when Spring starts in late February, 2005.

The garden patio, dedicated to devoted gardener, author and former News-Journal garden editor, Mary Jane McSwain is now fully open to the sunlight.

The area around the patio has been planted with grass and flowers tolerant of full-sun conditions.

This is a broader view of the devastation near the Gazebo. The water next to the bench is left over from the flooding that came with Hurricane Frances.

Make-a-Difference Day volunteers helped clean up around the Gazebo and planted grass to cover the bare ground. The standing water has receded, too.

More devastation.

Your donation to the Hurricane Restoration Fund will help restore the Gardens.

Objects such as the bench and imprint in the sidewalk are no longer hidden in the shade of the trees.

Although the shaded garden seemed secretive, the open garden still feels serene.

Nature has such innate recuperative power that it would be hard to tell that there had been one hurricane, let alone four.

Many thanks to the volunteers who worked with the City of Ormond Beach and OMAM on October 23, 2004, "Make a Difference Day".  Your work and dedication to the restoration of The Gardens is deeply appreciated.

For information regarding trees that do well in this area of Central Florida, the following websites may be helpful:

Arbor Day Foundation
International Society of Arboriculture
University of Florida Institute of Food and Agriculture Sciences
Florida Power and Light
Florida Division of Forestry
Volusia County Master Gardeners

1 Hurricane photos courtesy of NOAA/National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service

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