What we look for, what we found
We love to see gardens as we travel and to learn as we go how to
take home and apply the best of what other gardeners have worked
out -- plants, combinations, planting tricks, site modifications
and more. There are some things we always look for, others we
discover as we explore. To illustrate the gems we seek, we stop
into gardens all over North America and the world in this
presentation we call The Traveling Garden: On World
Tour.
You can download
the following list of gardens we cover in this
presentation.
Great vistas
University of Wisconsin Arboretum, restored prairie, Madison,
WI
http://uwarboretum.org/
North Carolina Arboretum, Blue Ridge Parkway outside Asheville,
NC
www.ncarboretum.org
Longwood Gardens, Kennet Square, PA
http://www.longwoodgardens.org/
University of Mexico Botanical Garden, Mexico City near Olympic
Stadium
http://www.planeta.com/ecotravel/mexico/gardens/unam.html
Unique settings
Snug Harbor Botanical Garden, Staten Island, NY, Chinese Scholar
Garden
http://www.snug-harbor.org/
Xochimilco, Mexico
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/412
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, Nashville,
TN
Chanticleer Gardens, Wayne, PA near Philadelphia
http://www.chanticleergarden.org/
Exotic look, exotic plants
University of Mexico Botanical Garden, Mexico City near Olympic
Stadium
http://www.planeta.com/ecotravel/mexico/gardens/unam.html
San Francisco Botanical Garden
http://www.sfbotanicalgarden.org/
Pacific Northwest, Washington's Olympic Peninsula Olympic
National Forest
http://www.fs.usda.gov/olympic/
Special exhibits
U. of Minnesota Landscape Arb, Chanhassen MN (far southwest
TwinCities)
http://www.arboretum.umn.edu/
Longwood Gardens, Kennet Square, PA
http://www.longwoodgardens.org/
New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY
http://www.nybg.org/
Dow Gardens, Midland, MI
http://www.dowgardens.org/
Good "back yard" models
Missouri Botanical Garden
http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/
Royal Horticultural Society Gardens at Wisley (far sw London
area), Surrey, UK
http://www.rhs.org.uk/gardens/wisley
Chicago Botanic Garden
http://www.chicagobotanic.org/
Innovation
Scottish Explorers Garden, Pitlochry, Scotland
http://www.explorersgarden.com/home.html
Arnhem, Netherlands, Cemeteries (Oosterbeek/Operation Market
Garden)
Grand old trees and other "specimens"
Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain (southwest Boston),
Massachusetts
http://www.arboretum.harvard.edu/
University of Wisconsin Arboretum and UofW Madison campus
http://uwarboretum.org/ and
http://www.wisc.edu/ search President's oak
Dawyck Botanic Gardens, Scottish Borders
http://www.rbge.org.uk/the-gardens/dawyck
Acclaimed collections
Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain (southwest Boston),
Massachusetts
http://www.arboretum.harvard.edu/
Kew Botanical Garden, west central London (Surrey),
England
http://www.kew.org/
Hidden Lake Gardens, Tipton, MI
http://hiddenlakegardens.msu.edu/
Dawes Arboretum, Newark, Ohio
http://dawesarb.org/
History: Appreciate the garden by knowing the gardener
Butchart Gardens, on Vancouver Island near Victoria, British
Columbia
http://www.butchartgardens.com/the-gardens/
Inverewe, Wester Ross, northwest Scottish Highlands 54 acres in
2,000 estate
http://www.nts.org.uk/Property/Inverewe-Garden-Estate/
Attadale Gardens, Strathcarron, Wester Ross, Scotland
http://www.attadalegardens.com/
Back gardens in Bastogne, eastern Belgium
http://www.visitbelgium.com/index.php/our-cities/bastogne
Cantigny Park, Gardens and Museum, Wheaton, IL
http://www.cantigny.org/gardens/