Brookgreen Gardens, Sculpture garden and wildlife preserve in Georgetown County, South Carolina, United States

Brookgreen Gardens is a sculpture park and nature preserve in Georgetown County, South Carolina, covering roughly 3,680 hectares (9,100 acres). The grounds include themed gardens with sculptures by American artists, walking trails through different ecosystems, and a small zoo featuring regional animal species.

Four former rice plantations were combined in 1932 when Archer Milton Huntington and Anna Hyatt Huntington established the grounds as a nature preserve and sculpture garden. The design developed over the following decades through the expansion of the collections and the opening of additional areas.

The name comes from the former Brookgreen Plantation, one of four rice plantations on the property, owned by Joshua John Ward, who held more than 1,000 enslaved African Americans before his death in 1853. The Lowcountry Trail boardwalk crosses the hillside above Mainfield, a restored rice field, where archaeological work found the overseer's residence, kitchen, smokehouse and dependency. Four stainless steel figures by Babette Bloch stand along the trail as the Plantation Owner, the Overseer, and an enslaved African man and woman.

The grounds can be explored on foot or using provided vehicles, with wide paths allowing access to all sections. A visit typically takes several hours, depending on which gardens and routes you choose.

The sculpture group in the photograph shows two rearing horses with a figure clinging to the right horse's back and another crouching on the pale gray stone base; it stands on a red brick wall. The gardens hold about 1,445 works of American figurative sculpture, including a 70-inch sea horse carved by Joseph Kiselewski and placed here in 1942.