camellias

LaGrange: Hills & Dales Estate

A not-to-be-missed site for garden travelers is the Hills & Dales Estate, the historic home and gardens of the Fuller E. Callaway family located on 35 acres of rolling hills

camellias

Clippings: Camellia Gardens and Festivals

Camellias, often referred to as winter’s rose, light up the landscape from November to March. Originally from eastern and southern Asia, the evergreen foliage does best in light shade

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Charleston: Magnolia Plantation and Its Gardens

Charleston, South Carolina Magnolia Plantation and Its Gardens Magnolia Plantation is one of the great plantations on the Ashley River Road, begun in the 1680’s by the Drayton family.

Botanical garden

Ringwood: New Jersey Botanical Garden at Skylands

Ringwood, New Jersey New Jersey Botanical Garden at Skylands The New Jersey State Botanical Garden (commonly known as Skylands) has 96 acres of specialty gardens surrounded by 1000 acres of

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Rockford: Klehm Arboretum and Botanic Garden

Rockford, Illinois Klehm Arboretum and Botanic Garden The Klehm Arboretum and Botanic Garden is beautiful throughout the year. Features around the 155-acres include the Nancy Olson Children’s Garden and

butterfly garden

Newnan: Dunaway Gardens

Newnan, Georgia Dunaway Gardens Minnie Pearl got her start here and Walt Disney loved to visit. When Hetty Jane Dunaway, one of the most popular actresses on the Chautauqua Circuit of summer theater, married booking agent Wayne P. Sewell, the couple moved to the

azaleas

Winterthur Estate and Gardens

Winterthur Winterthur, Delaware Winterthur Estate and Gardens Winterthur (pronounced “winter-tour”) is the horticulture legacy and childhood home of Henry Francis du Pont (1880–1969). Set in the hills of

Botanical garden

Huntington Gardens

Huntington, California Huntington Gardens The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens is a research and educational center founded in 1919 by railroad and real estate magnate Henry E. Huntington.

camellias

A Garden Traveler’s Pilgrimage: Charleston

Where’s your Holy Grail? Will you follow the Camino de Santiago (Way of St. James) across northern Spain, a route walked by millions of pilgrims since the Middle Ages,

Alabama

Hoover: Aldridge Gardens

Hoover, Alabama Aldridge Gardens The Aldridge Gardens was originally the home of horticulturalist Eddie Aldridge and his wife Kay, who conveyed the property to the city of Hoover in 1997.

Alabama

Dothan Area Botanical Gardens

Dothan, Alabama Dothan Area Botanical Gardens Construction began in 1996, and today the Dothan Area Botanical Gardens features 50 acres of cultivated gardens with plants and trees indigenous to Alabama.

Alabama

Birmingham Botanical Gardens

Birmingham, Alabama Birmingham Botanical Gardens Alabama’s oldest municipally owned garden, the 67.5 acre Birmingham Botanical Gardens is comprised of Gardens of Collections, Gardens of Nature and Gardens of

A collection of 12 gardens

LaGrange: Hills & Dales Estate

Clippings: Camellia Gardens and Festivals

Charleston: Magnolia Plantation and Its Gardens

Ringwood: New Jersey Botanical Garden at Skylands

Rockford: Klehm Arboretum and Botanic Garden

Newnan: Dunaway Gardens

Winterthur Estate and Gardens

Huntington Gardens

A Garden Traveler’s Pilgrimage: Charleston

Hoover: Aldridge Gardens

Dothan Area Botanical Gardens

Birmingham Botanical Gardens

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