This museum with a variety of exhibits on 19th century Adirondack life, includes a formal Colonial garden featuring modern varieties of old-fashioned plants and a nature trail.

In the process of creating a Garden Club to re-create the gardens. 

This courtyard is modeled on a Ming Dynasty scholar's retreat and was assembled by traditional craftsman from Soochow, China.

This 42 acre estate (appropriately named Munnysunk) showcases a mid-1800's house and a collection of 600 different kinds of native and exotic plants and trees, many rare. Gardens include an iris garden, a rose garden, unusual plantings, a chrysanthemums, a perennial garden (150 to 500 labeled varieties), a rock garden (with a 4 foot high castle), an interpretive nature trail (along a stream, through a bog and dense, wild shrubs), and a Sensory Garden with Braille signs.

A variety of gardens, esplanades and statuary grace this busy city park at the tip of Manhattan.

This state park includes collections fir, spruce, pine, cypress, hemlock and other conifers as well as dwarf evergreens, rhododendron, azaleas, hollies and oaks, wildflowers and daffodils

A collection of historic buildings including an inn, a barn, a school, and a cabin.

Boscobel is a restored Federal period house overlooking the river with period furniture and decorative arts and formal gardens and grounds.

This splendid facility displays a host of wonderful gardens, including the Magnolia Plaza, Daffodil Hill, the Fragrance Garden, the Shakespeare Garden, the Celebrity Path (stepping stones inscribed with the names of famous persons from Brooklyn), the Japanese Garden, the Herb Garden (16th century English knot), the Cherry Esplanade (40 varieties), the Lilac Collection (150 species and cultivars), the Overlook, the Osborne Garden (3 acre Italian style), the Native Flora Garden, the Cranford Rose Garden (5000 bushes of 1200 varieties), the Crape-Myrtle Walk, the Bluebell Wood (45,000 bluebells), the Annual Border, the Plant Family Collection (ordered by time of evolution), the Rock Garden, the Mixed Perennial Border, the Steinhardt Conservatory, the Lily Pool Terrace, the Children's Garden and the Discovery Garden.

This famous zoo offers 265 wooded acres of naturalistic habitats that are home to more than 4,000 animals. Exhibits include Jungle World, the Gorilla Forest, Himilayan Highlands, forests and meadows of Asia, a Baboon Reserve, the World of Darkness, the World of Birds, the World of Reptiles, Skyfari, Wild Asia, African Plains, and a MouseHouse.

This 11.3 acre Frederick Law Olmsted park was renovated in the mid-1980s and includes a 12 room Victorian conservatory with orchids, bromeliads, begonias, cacti, ferns, palms, citrus, an herb marketplace, and a rainforest tower above a pond and water garden. Outside visitors can enjoy perennial and shrub gardens.

This 23.5 acre urban zoo provides nature-like enclosures for over 1,000 animals from tigers to tortoises plus 113 invertebrates.

Animals from snow leopards to poison dart frogs live in diverse habitats ranging from exotic tropical rain forests to the familiar northeast woodlands.

This museum, housed in a Mediterranean-style villa, offers extensive gardens, including the Woodland Garden, the Sense Circle (a sensory garden built around a fountain and dovecote), the Butterfly Garden (a fountain surrounded by plants important to butterfly development), the Sunken Garden (perennial borders surrounding 4 annual beds and statuary), the Tapestry Hedge (a variety of evergreens with statuary), the Spanish Courtyard (4 triangular gardens around a marble fountain), and the Cutting Garden.

The Gifford House perennial gardens display more than 850 species of plants arranged by theme or design concept, including a sunken garden, a small pool, a butterfly garden, a hummingbird garden, collections of spring bulbs, peonies, lilacs, daylilies, iris, ornamental grasses, and clematis, the Leonard I. Shankman Rose Garden, a Xeriscape Garden, a Water Garden, and even a Deer Browse Demonstration Garden. The adjoining 118 acre arboretum, named after its creator, includes specimen trees, sugar maples and a fern glen.

You probably weren't expecting peacocks, but peacocks wander the Biblical Garden displaying herbs, flowering plants, trees and shrubs mentioned in the Bible.

This municipal All America Rose Selections accredited rose garden exhibits over 3,000 bushes.

Not open to the public, this garden was designed by, among others, horticultural therapists, to create a therapeutic environment for children with disabilities. Such a nice idea, we thought it worth mentioning.

This 12 acre park-like garden offers specialty gardens featuring roses, wildflowers, herbs, daylilies, rock garden plants, dwarf evergreens, shade plantings, winter gardens, small flowering trees, early and late-flowering shrubs, massed rhododendrons and azaleas and spring bulbs.

Home to 7 generations of Livingstons, the 430 acre manor house grounds feature extensive landscaping, including a lilac walk, ancient oaks and black locusts, formal gardens, nature trails and scenic vistas.

The Front Garden is a formal garden divided into flower beds, including one devoted to Native American plants. The Rear Garden is divided into 110 plots for neighborhood residents to plant.

This 4 acre site is devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. Three gardens provides historically accurate representation of medieval horticulture.

Lovely landscaping, gardens, ponds and fountains, ornament this city park containing several of the famous mineral springs.

The Conservatory Garden features six acres of formal plantings, including Italian and English-style gardens with hundreds of roses, a wisteria pergola, crabapple allees, bulbs, perennial borders and three water installations. Built on the former site of a series of conservatories, the Garden was recently restored by the Central Park Conservancy.

This historic 17 acre estate with a 14 room limestone mansion, home to 5 generations of Constables, offers grounds with formal gardens in the pattern of the Cross of St. Andrew and plants believed to be seedlings from original 1810 plantings. Clement Moore's A Visit from St. Nicholas ("'Twas the night before Christmas") was written here.

This educational display garden is comprised of 23 sections connected with 16 grassy paths.  The garden features Zone 4 and 5 perennials, some annuals and trees and shrubs.  Special areas include a shade Picnic Garden, a Master Gardener Gazebo, an International Garden, a Blue and White Circle Garden, a Knot Garden, a Cactus and Succulent Garden, an Ornamental Grass Garden, and an All White Memorial Tribute Garden.

This is the Arboretum, Botanical Garden and Natural Areas of Cornell University. The F. R. Newman Arboretum collections includes the Beech Loop, Field Flower Meadow, the Flowering Shrub Collection (Zucker Shrub Sampler and Harris Lilac Collection), the Mitchell Woods, the Native Maple Slope, the Nut Tree Collection, the Oak-Hickory Slope, the Oak-Yew Grove and Magnolia Grove, the Pin Oak Grove, the Sculpture Garden, the Shrub Dogwood Collection, the Small Flowering Tree Collection, the Sugar Bush, the Urban Tree Collection and the Woodland Walk. The Botanical Garden exhibits include the Conifer-Maple Slope, the  Flowers and Decorative Arts Garden, the Groundcover Collection (the Hillside Garden, North Walk and Shade Garden), the Herb Garden, the Heritage Vegetable Garden, the International Crop & Weed Garden (Corn Breeding Display and Iroquois Three Sisters Garden), the Peony and Perennial Garden, the Rhododendron Collection, the Rock Garden and the Wildflower Garden. In addition 560 acres of on-campus area offers trails, creeks, gorges, a wildflower garden and a fern walk.

The Cornell Cooperative Extension for Broome County operates this lovely garden which offers a gazebo encircled with shrubs, roses and annuals, collections of perennials and annuals, the Heritage Garden (vegetables), a Hardy Rose Border, an Herb Garden, a Rock Garden, a Heath and Heather garden, an Ornamental Grasses Garden.

Delaware Park, a Frederick Law Olmsted designed public park, offers a 6 acre Japanese Garden, a friendship garden with Buffalo's sister city of Kanazawa, Japan. Situated on Mirror Lake, the garden features over 1,000 plantings, nearly 20 globe-type lights, and three small islands connected to the mainland by bridges. The garden is undergoing a restoration that will include a new rock garden.

This corporate headquarters site is also home to a 68 acre sculpture garden renovated by Russell Page and displaying renowned sculpture, gardens and a lily pool.

This Rockland County Park features an arboretum with formal gardens and maintained orchards.

These gardens of the 19th century horticulturist George Ellwanger include collections of perennials, roses and trees. Open to the public during the Lilac Festival, mid-May, and Peony Weekend and at other times by appointment.

The 30 acre complex has original an 1750 limestone house and colonial farm structures with a 19th century schoolhouse and Blacksmith's Shop.

This art museum, formerly the impressive residence of industrialist Henry Clay Frick, includes an elevated garden with 3 large magnolia trees and a Garden Court.

This garden has Braille signs for the visually impaired. A fern garden is also located on the grounds.

This 19th century country village offers 12 historic gardens, including the Heirloom Garden (a kitchen garden), herb gardens, the Livingston-Backus Formal Garden, the Foster-Tufts Garden (berries and fruits), the Mackay Homestead Garden (cottage garden), the Amherst- Humphrey Dye Garden, the MacArthur House Garden (flower and vegetable), the Shaker Garden, and the Octagon House Picturesque Garden.

This elegant resort, built in 1910 as a replica of the Lancellotti Villa in Frascati outside Rome, is situated on manicured grounds featuring symmetrical hedged gardens and marble statues.

The 12.5 acre estate of George Eastman (of Eastman-Kodak renown) exhibit the influences of Italian, French and English landscape design. The gardens include the East Garden and Terrace Garden (an Italian formal design), the Library Garden (originally a cutting garden), the West Garden (an English walled garden), a Grape Arbor (250 foot horseshoe shaped) and a restored Rock Garden.

This 96 acre site displays 2,000 kinds of woody and herbaceous plants, including a rose garden, a rock garden, a wildflower area, conifers, lilacs, rhododendrons and flowering crabapples.

This retail nursery, with views of Lake Seneca, specializes in hybrid daylilies and grows 1,600 registered varieties.  Walkways, arbors and a rose garden add interest to the display gardens.

The Museum and Garden's mission is to provide links between the East and the West. The 3 acre Stroll Garden displays a Zen Garden, a Waterfall Garden, a pond with water lilies, a reflecting pool with stepping stones, a Red Maple Terrace, Katsura Trees, Cherry Trees, a Mountain Walk, a Fruit Garden, an Azalea Garden, a Dry Landscape Garden, a Bamboo Garden, and the Island of Bodhisattva.

This grand Georgian-style mansion of a Revolutionary War hero includes period gardens.

Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and home to Rochester's Lilac Festival, this splendid park displays a cornucopia of wonderful plants, including 1200 lilacs, a Japanese Maple collection, 35 varieties of magnolias, a barberry collection, a rock garden with dwarf evergreens, 700 varieties of rhododendron, azaleas, mountain laurel and andromeda, horse chestnuts, spring bulbs and wildflowers and a large number of trees. The park also features a pansy bed of 10,000 plants designed into an oval floral "carpet" with a new pattern each year. Lamberton Conservatory, a 1911 conservatory within the park, offers a Tropical Forest Display as well as collections of exotic plants, desert plants, economic plants (such as banana and coffee trees), and house plants. Also within the park, Warner Castle (a Gothic style residence) features display gardens including a Sunken Garden, a Shady Border, a Rock Garden, a Courtyard Garden, an Iris and Daylily Bed, an Old-Fashioned Rose Bed, a Miniature Rose Bed, a Fern Bed and a 13th Century Herb Garden.

The University's 240 acre campus is an arboretum displaying over 8,000 evergreen and deciduous trees representing 425 species and varieties.

Headquarters of the Audubon Society of New York, this 138-acre nature preserve offers a pond, meadows, woodlands, gardens for wildlife and 10 miles of trails.

A 1680 saltbox was the childhood home of the composer of "Home Sweet Home". An 1840 Windmill is situated in the kitchen and herb gardens surrounding the house.

This 150 acre basin surrounding a 40 acre lake is landscaped in a naturalistic Oriental style Chinese style with water features and statuary.

Named after a mathematics professor, this garden offers eight acres of formal gardens and woodlands, including the Robison Herb Garden. Nearby is the Levine Wildflower Garden. Campus Map.

Patterned as a small Tibetan temple, the grounds showcase terraced sculpture gardens, a lily and fish pond, and a distant view of the lower Hudson Bay.

A 19th century mansion and barn are complemented by reconstructed Victorian gardens.

This waterfront hub features an All America Rose Selections accredited garden with all the latest AARS winners.

Five generations of the Jay family occupied this house with its herb garden.

The 4 acre site of deeply wooded land adjacent to a wild life sanctuary uses sloping terrain, a pond and waterfall, moss terraces, and stepping stones to represent mountain streams flowing to the ocean. A Garden Conservancy Garden.

This 1760 Colonial house includes landscaped grounds and gardens.

This 1754 Georgian style house, used as a Revolutionary War headquarters, is the site of the Jane Colden Native Plant Sanctuary.

Home to four generations of the Rockefeller family, Kykuit is enhanced by taking extensive stone terraces, formal gardens, fountains, vistas of the Hudson River, and a collection of 20th century sculpture.

This 208 acre park features woodlands, trails, an arboretum and the Trail of the Vietnam and Korean Memorial.

An outdoor modular growing system with 65,000 plants.

The 150 acre romantically landscaped grounds at the home of the 19th century artist who invented the telegraph and Morse Code display his artistic talents. The main house is surrounded by extensive gardens designed by Morse containing shrubbery, trees and flowers Scenic vistas, planned by Morse, reveal the spectacular terraced setting, as the Hudson River glints through the trees on lower tiers. The influence of the picturesque, Romantic 19th century landscape design is evident.

With a dual focus on art and gardening, the mission of the Longhouse Reserve Garden is to create landscapes as an art form and to demonstrate planting potentials in this climate with a variety of plant material.

An 1807 brick mansion situated on a knoll overlooking Cazenovia Lake is ornamented by a formal garden and arboretum.

The romanticism of the Gothic Revival style home are incorporated into the grounds designed by Ferdinand Mangold in the 19th century. Extensive lawns, specimen trees and planned vistas enhance the naturalistic setting. A greenhouse is undergoing restoration.

The two acres of gardens include a fountained laburnum arbor with ivy, a 120-foot rose walk, a Chinese bridge, a privet allee and a formal vegetable garden.

This Chinese Buddhist Temple Complex contains several houses of worship, a seven story pagoda, a Pond of Life, Dragon Lane and many gardens.

This city-owned All America Rose Selections accredited rose garden displays 300 varieties and more than 5000 blooms. Site of the annual three day Maplewood Rose Festival.

Mazeland Gardens is an entertainment center of mazes with 2 mazes constructed with arborvitae hedges, one a 1/2 acre in size and the other a full acre, and 2 mazes with stakes and colored tape to mark the walls.

See also the Luquer-Marble Memorial Wildflower Garden, a 1/2 acre garden near the Trailside Museum contains over 100 kinds of wildflowers.

This lovely city rose garden is an All-America Rose Selections accredited garden.

Mohonk Mountain House, a remarkable 276 room Victorian castle resort, offers its guests grounds with extensive formal gardens. 128 gazebos, and greenhouses.

The 434 acre Livingston family estate with its restored 23 room mansion offers outdoor pleasures of gardens and a greenhouse, a waterfall, walking trails, and views of the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains.

Manhattan’s oldest surviving house has a garden. George Washington did sleep here, but it's Napoleon's bed you will see.

This former home of a wealthy Dutch merchant is ornamented by circa 1804 formal English gardens maintained by an escaped slave who recorded information about his life and work in a diary. The garden is undergoing restoration.

An 1799 carriage house, now a museum, includes a late-18th-century garden with stone benches.

The 6 acre Mountain Top Arboretum, surrounded by the Catskill Mountains, displays a labeled collection of both exotic and native trees and shrubs.

This wonderful 8 acre site features over 260 species of trees, plus the Lowe Herb Garden (200 varieties of herbs) as well as an Early American Garden, an American Indian Garden, a Japanese meditation garden and a pond with fish, a Culinary Garden, an Industrial Garden, a Fragrance Garden, an Oriental Garden, a Children's Zoo Garden and a Biblical Garden.

This premier 250 acre botanical gardens (18,000 species, varieties and cultivars) offers gardens galore, including the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden (with 2,700 bushes), the Rock Garden (2.5 acres), the Native Plant Garden (9 different northeastern habitats), the Jane Watson Irwin Perennial Garden, the Nancy Bryan Luce Herb Garden (a boxwood double knot with 160 American and European herbs), the Demonstration Gardens (a fragrance garden, a vegetable garden, a cutting garden, a wildlife garden, a country garden, a shade garden, and autumn garden), and the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden. Special collections include daffodils (100,000 bulbs), daylilies, chrysanthemums, orchids (5000 plants), peonies (42 varieties), ferns and ornamental conifers (7 acres). The Enid A. Haupt Conservatory is a recently renovated immense Victorian glass conservatory and offers an ecotour of tropical, subtropical, and desert environments in 11 exhibition galleries.

This Persian-style home once belonged to Frederic Edwin Church, one of the most renowned artists of the Hudson River School. The "Picturesque style" landscaped grounds were designed by the artist as a living landscape painting featuring a lake and vistas of the Catskill Mountains and Hudson River.

This 1906 Charles II style mansion features 88 acres of magnificent formal English style gardens, tree-lined walks, grand allées, ponds, statuary, and architectural follies. Special features include the Boxwood Garden, the Rose Trellis, the Primrose Walk, the Lilac Walk, the Walled Garden, the Ghost Walk, the Cottage Garden, the Linden Allee, the Demonstration Gardens, the Temple of Love, the Swimming Pool, and the Woodland Walk.

A Catholic shrine with a glass Dome Church with a 13 foot granite statue of Mary and intensively landscaped grounds graced by over 100 statues and a heart-shaped Rosary Pond.

The Pace University Pleasantville campus is a new arboretum.

This museum of American art is surrounded by gardens which display more than 250 different trees and shrubs and sculpture reproductions from the original Parrish collection.

The Garden Court, a reception area, is ornamented by trees, hanging vines, and seasonal flowering plants. A graceful curved roof of glass and steel rises 42 feet above a floor of Vermont marble and limestone walls.

This impressive 409 acre former estate near Oyster Bay, Long Island, features a historic home (Coe Hall), gardens and greenhouses. Gardens includes the Synoptic Garden (plants arranged alphabetically), the Dwarf Conifer Garden, and a collection of dahlias. The greenhouses consist of the Camellia House (camellias), the Main Greenhouse (seasonal displays), the East Wing (cacti and orchids) and the West Wing (ferns and begonias).

This memorial garden is an All America Rose Selections accredited garden. Across the street at historic Fort Decker is an historic tree grove and an herb garden.

This restored Federal/Greek Revival home and its ten outbuildings are situated on 5 1/2 acres of grounds featuring lovely herb and flower gardens with brick walks, painted fences, and a sun dial.

This outstanding 39 acre botanical garden, including a 21-acre arboretum, provides seasonal displays of tulips, roses, and annuals, as well as a collection of plants and trees organized into five teaching collections (the Bird Garden, the Bee Garden, the Ethnic Garden, the Herb Garden, the Woodland Garden, and the Pinetum) and six backyard demonstration gardens (include the Beach Garden, Rock Garden, Pergola Garden, Patio Garden, Wooded Garden and Fountain Garden), plus a Wedding Garden (a 3 acre English Victorian Garden) and the Charles H. Perkins Memorial Rose Garden (six acres).

This 770 acre interpretive educational site includes an 1848 Meeting house, eight remaining buildings, fields, apple orchard, Ann Lee Pond and nature preserve, and the Shaker cemetery.

This lovely reconstructed 4 acre cottage garden sited on a rocky hillside was dedicated to Shakespeare in 1916 on the 300th anniversary of his death. It displays only plants mentioned in Shakespeare's works.

This 20 acres of wonderful gardens, a testament to Mary Clark Thompson and her 90 gardeners, offer a conservatory (tropicals and 200 orchids) and theme gardens: the Japanese Garden (with stones, water features and a Buddha), the Rose Garden (patterned beds with 4000 roses), the Sub Rosa Garden (or Secret Garden with green and white and statuary), the Italian Garden (allees and 4 sunken gardens with 15,000 annuals), the Old-Fashioned Garden (5 interlocking circles with annuals and perennials), the Rock Garden (a naturalistic woodland garden with water), the Blue and White Garden, the Pansy Garden, the Moonlight Garden, the Butterfly Garden and a Reflecting Pond.

This site features many lovely gardens, including the Perennial Garden (200 cultivars), the Heritage Rose Garden (a formal garden), the White Garden, the Pond Garden (marsh plants, swans, ducks, goldfish and turtles), the Herb Garden (a circular planting surrounded by the Siberian iris collection), the Butterfly Garden, the Lion's Sensory Garden (accessible), the Victorian Plantings (accent plantings around points of interest), the Potager Garden (kitchen vegetable garden), the Plantation (a 750 tree plantation, divided into a Pinetum. Oriental Flowering Tree and Shrub Collection and a Native Wetland Tree and Shrub Collection), the Allee (120 European hornbeams) and the Shade Garden. The New York Chinese Scholar's Garden (enclosed by walls with a series of pavilions) is the latest edition.

The museum demonstrates life at a frontier home and rural tavern. Outside features include a privy, smokehouse, orchard and garden.

This hilltop 40 acre estate showcases a series of gardens, including an enclosed English-style garden, a woodland garden, a grass garden, and a cliffside rock garden with steams, pools and a small lake. A conservatory displays miniature alpine plants and bulbs. Its owners founded the Garden Conservancy.

A century old working farm, now run by the Cornell extension as a agricultural education center for the general public, includes the Nathaniel Talmage Greenhouse, the Butterfly Garden and the Children’s Garden.

This cheerfully named estate with its whimsical house was the home of Washington Irving features grounds and plantings laid out by Irving himself.

This company which includes a Tea Ceremonies school, showcases a landscape and garden with an Oriental motif.

 This Nature Preserve and Education Center includes Wildflower Island, a 2 acre site displaying diverse habitats and over 150 species of wildflowers native to the area.

This commercial garden center features a solar-domed conservatory (with waterfalls and tropical plants), a Japanese garden, Water Gardens, and more.