Historic Bartram's Garden Near Philadephia, PA—Historic home and garden of the Bartrams, America's pioneering family of naturalists, botanists and explorers.
Historic Deepwood Estate Museum Salem, OR—Elegant 1894 example of an ornate, multi-gabled Queen Anne style home.
Tower Grove Park St. Louis, MO—Victorian park "created...for the enjoyment of all classes...The rich, the poor, the educated and the illiterate have an equal title to the fair domain of shade and sward, of pleasant walks and landscapes..."
Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens Akron, OH—One of the finest examples of Tudor Revival architecture in America; majestic 65-room country house sits on 70 acres of artfully landscaped gardens and grounds.
Aullwood Garden MetroPark, Dayton, OH—A peaceful, mostly shaded garden started in 1909 by John Aull, continued by his wife Marie, and supported by the property owners of Montgomery County, making visits free. The historic house and garden are listed on the Ohio historic registry. A bur oak tree shows the 1913 flood level. Spring is spectacular with hillsides of bulbs or bluebells in flower. The butterfly garden and prairie are at their peak in summer. Late summer to early fall masses of hardy begonia, colchicum, and magic lily are in flower. The year concludes with a luminary walk the first Sunday evening in December. Directions: Located north of Dayton. From I75 take US 40 west. Just before crossing the Englewood Dam, turn south on Aullwood Road, and drive past the Aullwood Audubon Center. Look for Garden Parking sign on west side at 955 Aullwood Road. Questions? Leave a message at 937-275-7275, ext. 1761.
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens Houston, TX—The magnificent home of Miss Ima Hogg.
Biltmore Estate Near Asheville, NC—George Vanderbilt's larger-than-life country retreat in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains.
Dumbarton Oaks Washington, DC (Georgetown)
Filoli Center Near San Francisco, CA—654-acre Filoli estate with historic house and sixteen acres of formal garden occupied from 1917 to 1936 by William Bowers Bourn II and his wife, Agnes Moody Bourn.
Monticello Charlottesville, VA—Home of Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States.
Montpelier Montpelier Station, VA—Life-long home of James Madison, fourth president and "Father of the Constitution."
Historic Annapolis Foundation Annapolis, MD
Longue Vue House and Gardens New Orleans, LA—Longue Vue was the home of late philanthropists Edgar Bloom Stern, a New Orleans cotton broker, and his wife Edith, an heir to the Sears Roebuck fortune.
Audubon House & Tropical Gardens Key West, FL—One acre of tropical gardens featuring orchids and bromeliads; the "finest tropical garden in the Florida Keys."
Virginia House Richmond, VA—An American Country Place maintained by Virginia Historical Society, with eight acres of picturesque gardens.
Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art, and Forestry (1888-1897)—Joint project of the Library of Congress Preservation Reformatting Division, the University of Michigan Making of America project, and the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.
Peckerwood Garden TX—An hour's drive from either Austin, College Station, or Houston, poised on the edge of three climate and geological zones. The Peckerwood Garden Foundation is an outstanding repository of rare and unusual plants and unique folk art from Mexico and the United States.
Strawbery Banke Museum Portsmouth, NH—Historic maritime community. See also annuals display at adjacent Prescott Park.
Edsel & Eleanor Ford House Grosse Pointe Shores, MI (Detroit area)