Vermont
Gardens
Equinox Valley
Nursery: Historic Route 7A, Manchester, VT (802)362-2610.
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This
retail nursery and landscaping business offers a tropical
conservatory and display gardens. |
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Greatwood
Gardens: Goddard College, 123 Pitkin Road, Plainfield, VT
05667 (802)454-8311.
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The
college is situated on the former Greatwood Farms Estate which
included professionally landscaped gardens. |
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Gardens at
Hildene: Historic Route 7A, P.O. Box 377, Manchester, VT
05254 (802) 362-1788.
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Abraham
Lincoln's oldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln, built this Georgian
Revival manor house overlooking the Battenkill Valley. The
formal gardens, designed by his daughter Jessie Lincoln
Beckwith, replicate a stained glass Gothic cathedral window
with privet hedges and peonies, roses, lilies and other
flowers. Period cutting and kitchen gardens have also been
restored at the site. |
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Little Siberia Perennials: 966 Maston Hill Road,
Granville, VT 05747 (802)767-3391.
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Located in the mountains at 1600 feet elevation, Zone 3 and
4 hardy perennials, heathers, shrubs, and roses are displayed
in over 20 gardens at our retail nursery. Stroll through
islands of color set against one of Vermont’s most dramatic
backdrops. |
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Park
McCullough House: Corner Park & West Streets, P.O. Box 388,
North Bennington, VT 05257 (802)442-5441.
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This
French Empire style mansion, home to two of Vermont's
Governors, offers beautifully landscaped gardens and grounds.
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Rocky Dale Gardens: 62 Rocky Dale Road, Bristol, VT 05443
(802)453-2782.
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This
retail nursery, situated in a vale amidst rock ledges, offers
display gardens with common and unusual trees and plants. See
our
Photo
Feature of their evergreens. |
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Shelburne
Farms: 1611 Harbor Road, Shelburne, VT 05482 (802)985-8686.
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This
1886 model agricultural estate, now an environmental education
center, was created by William Seward and Lila Vanderbilt Webb
with architect Robert H. Robertson and landscape architect
Frederick Law Olmsted. The naturalistically landscaped
grounds, optimizing vistas of Lake Champlain, include a garden
at the magnificent house and a market garden. Be sure to visit
the amazing barn! |
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Shelburne
Museum: Route 7, Shelburne, VT 05482 (802)985-3346.
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Founded
in 1947 by Electra Havemeyer Webb, a collector of every kind
of Americana from circus figurines to buildings to a
paddlewheel steamer, this wonderful 45 acre museum features
over 35 historic buildings placed in a park-like setting
designed by Umberto Innocenti. Gardens include the Apothecary
Herb Garden (medicinal herbs), the Hat and Fragrance Textile
Gallery Garden (culinary herbs and plants for dyes), the
Electra Bostwick Memorial Garden (annuals, perennials and
roses arranged like an artist's palette), the Pleissner
Gallery Garden, and collections of lilacs (400 bushes of 90
varieties) and crabapples (200 trees). |
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University of Vermont Horticultural Research Center: Green
Mountain Drive, South Burlington, VT (802)658-9166 (Manager) or
(802)864-3073 (Friends).
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The
97 acre "Hort. Farm" displays 700 kinds of ornamental trees
and shrubs, many of them uncommon or unique. Special
collections include apples, crabapples (210 specimens of 135
varieties), lilacs (90 varieties), junipers (60 varieties),
and a labelled perennial display border. |
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Vermont Community Botanical Garden: Corner of Dorset and Swift
Streets, South Burlington, VT.
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Still
a gleam in its creators' eyes (The National Gardening
Association), this proposed botanical garden now has an
office in an historic estate at a proposed site and is
beginning fund raising. It will eventually offer formal
gardens, a winter garden, a natural amphitheater, a gazebo, a
butterfly garden, a children's garden, a maze, a secret
garden, a wildlife garden, an arboretum, herbs, a dwarf
variety orchard, and an ethnic heritage garden. |
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Vermont
Wildflower Farm: 4750 Shelburne Road (Route 7 at Ferry Road),
Charlotte , VT 05445 (802)425-3641.
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This
wildflower seed company's headquarters offers paths with signs
through two flower fields and a woodland with a brook and
pond. |
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