Wells Japanese Garden, Japanese garden in Newberry, South Carolina, United States

Wells Japanese Garden is a small Japanese garden at 1608 Lindsay Street in Newberry, South Carolina. It holds two ponds, concrete bridges in a Japanese style, a torii, and a teahouse, planted with lotus, Japanese iris, water lilies, crepe myrtle, dogwood, and cypress.

W. Fulmer Wells, an architecture graduate, designed the garden in 1930 and created an early example of Japanese garden art in South Carolina. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, recognizing its historical importance.

The garden's name honours W. Fulmer Wells, who laid it out in 1930 on land later given to the city. Since 1971 the Newberry Council of Garden Clubs has restored and maintained it. A torii gate and a teahouse stand among crepe myrtle, dogwood, cypress, lotus, Japanese iris and water lilies.

Wells Japanese Garden is at 1608 Lindsay Street in Newberry, South Carolina, and is open daily. The garden is maintained by the Newberry Council of Garden Clubs, which has been restoring it; some plantings and structures may be under work during a visit.

The garden's 2012 pine gift came from Martin CJ Mongiello, senior curator of The Presidential Service Museum, who lived in Japan for years. He recalled Zōjō-ji Temple in Tokyo, where Presidents Ulysses S. Grant and George H. W. Bush each planted a pine. Komatsu Corporation gave funds for additions that year.