New York

Staten Island, New York Staten Island Botanical Garden Includes a Chinese Scholar’s Garden, Secret Garden, Sensory Garden, Model Barn and Farm, Shade Garden, Butterfly Garden, White Garden, Peony Collection, Potage Garden, Rhododendron Collection., Dogwood Collection and Wetlands. [ info ]

Queens, New York Queens Botanical Garden Set on 39 acres in the heart of New York City’s largest borough. Attractions include the Herb Garden, Bird Garden, Fragrance Garden and Wetlands. [ info ]

New York, New York Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden The fall rose encore is currently underway in the New York Botanical Garden’s Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden. Originally designed in 1916 by landscape architect (and niece of Edith Wharton) Beatrix Jones Farrand, the garden was

Long Island, New York Planting Fields Arboretum Winter is especially dramatic at the Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park, located between Oyster Bay and Locust Valley on Long Island’s North Shore. A former Gold Coast estate, the spectacular grounds were landscaped by

Long Island, New York Madoo Conservancy Now on the National Register of Historic Places, a leading European gardening publication once called the Madoo Conservancy “one of the ten best gardens in America”. The Madoo (from an old Scottish word meaning “my dove”

Lattingtown, New York Bailey Arboretum The 42-acre Arboretum is filled with exotic trees such as the Dwarf Nikko Fir of Japan, the Blue Atlas Cedar of North Africa, and the Dawn Redwood of China. A small area adjacent to a larger pond fosters the

Ithica, New York Cornell Plantations The Cornell Plantations cover more than 175 acres around the campus of Cornell University, including: The 25-acre botanical garden features 14 specialty gardens, including herbs, flowers, heritage vegetables, international crops, rock garden plants, rhododendrons, peonies, perennials, ornamental grasses, ground

Esperance, New York Landis Arboretum 200 acres overlooking the Schoharie Valley near Esperance, NY. 40 acres are developed with plantings of trees, shrubs, and herbaceous perennials from around the world. The remainder of the property consists of natural areas, woodlands and open fields reminiscent

Canandaigua, New York Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion Open daily May 2– Oct. 31.Near Canandaigua Lake, in the heart of the Finger Lakes, Sonnenberg (German for “sunny hill”) Gardens & Mansion is a 50-acre historic estate. The 40-room Queen Anne-style mansion was built in

Buffalo, New York Garden Walk Buffalo The largest garden tour in America, Garden Walk is a self-guided tour of more than 370 gardens, June 23 – July 29, 2012. Described by The Atlantic magazine as “America’s best event of its kind,” Garden Walk

Buffalo, New York Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens Visit Olmsted’s South Park, the 1899 tri-domed glass conservatory building, and the Victorian-style gardens, including:Gardens Under Glass: Palm Dome, Dinosaur Gardens, Rainforest Tower Garden (including Koi fish pond and waterfall), Desert Garden,

Buffalo, New York Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens Visit Olmsted’s South Park, the 1899 tri-domed glass conservatory building, and the Victorian-style gardens, including:Gardens Under Glass: Palm Dome, Dinosaur Gardens, Rainforest Tower Garden (including Koi fish pond and waterfall), Desert Garden,

Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn Botanical Garden Winter weekdays admission is free. Chase Away the Winter Blues tours are offered at 1 p.m. on the first Sunday of each month until March by licensed psychotherapist and veteran Garden guide Lynne Spevack. Each month’s

Bronx, New York Wave Hill Located on 28 acres in the northwest Bronx and originally built as a country home in 1843, Thomas Henry Huxley, Charles Darwin, Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain and conductor Arturo Toscanini have all visited the gardens at Wave Hill. The

Albertson, New York Clark Botanic Garden A 12-acre living museum and educational facility. Collections at the garden include native spring wildflowers, conifers, roses, perennials, daylilies, wetland plants, rock garden plants, herbs, butterfly plants, medicinal plants and over a dozen collections of particular plant families.