Our Garden & Horticulture

Our Garden has grown from humble beginnings as a WPA project to an 155-acre garden filled with thousands of plants. More than forty themed gardens are spread across site. Some gardens focus on a single plant (camellias, hydrangeas, roses), others look at a plant from a specific region (Japan, Virginia), while others provide homeowners with great ideas and or new plants to use in their own garden. Learn more about some of our themed gardens, plants and horticultural information by clicking on a link at the left.

Featured Plant

Davidia involucrata - Dove tree

Dove-tree (Davidia involucrata)

This showy plant is flowering for the first time in our arboretum.

Fall Gardens
Butterfly Garden

colorful plants and wings

Mirror Lake

Reflections of fall color

Rose Garden

Thousands of roses in bloom

Wildflower Meadow

fields of flowers

Japanese Garden

Fall foliage in a formal garden

See All fall Gardens
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