Hillwood Estate - Museum & Gardens
Landscape architects Umberto Innocenti and Richard Webel created the French Parterre, featuring typical elements of an 18th-century French garden, to complement her collection of 18th-century French art and furnishings.
Landscape architect Perry Wheeler, who helped design the White House rose garden, helped adapt the Rose Garden in 1956. Beds are edged by a green and white border of alyssum and boxwood hedges. It’s also the final resting place of Marjorie Post.
Other highlights are the Japanese-style Garden; the Friendship Walk; and the Lunar Lawn, a large, crescent-shaped lawn that provides a view of the Washington Monument and was a favorite spot of Post.
Open Tuesday – Saturday, 10:00am to 5:00pm,and select Sundays and evenings throughout the year. Closed January and most national holidays.
Website: Hillwood Estate – Museum & Gardens