This Tudor and Stuart English building (circa 1485-1650), transported across the Atlantic, is set on grounds designed by Charles Gillette featuring traditional English elements, including the brick walls, stone walkways, and boxwood hedges Gardens include a circular fragrance garden and a sunken garden.

This retail nursery, offering 3,000 varieties of poppies, iris, peonies, daylilies and more, features display gardens.

The house, home to Harlem Renaissance poet Anne Bethel Spencer, features her lovely garden sanctuary.

The former home of James Monroe, now belonging to the College of William and Mary, features a formal boxwood garden and a vegetable garden.

The elegant home of artist Gari Melchers, overlooking the Rappahannock River, offers lovely gardens.

This 1670 plantation home, one of the James River Plantations and how a bed and breakfast, offers landscaped grounds.

The 6 acre grounds of this Federal style red sandstone house feature the elegant "Old Rose Garden" displaying 200 bushes of 160 antique cultivars in a geometric design.

The birthplace of President William Henry Harrison, this historic home features terraced gardens dug by hand before the Revolutionary War.

This county park displays both an All America Rose Selections garden (the Bon Air Memorial Rose Garden) with 2,400 rose bushes of 157 varieties, an Azalea Garden, an Ornamental Tree Garden, and a Wild Flower Area.

This 15 acre forest of naturalistically planted native and ornamental trees and shrubs includes collections of Dwarf Conifers, Magnolias, Dogwoods, Rhododendrons, Azaleas and Japanese Maples.

The Azalea Gardens, renamed Robert E. Harvey Memorial Azalea Gardens, consist of a spectacular 7 acres of azaleas displayed in 76 individual beds. The Friends of Bryan Park are working to preserve and enhance the gardens. A lovely photograph of the Park can be found on the City of Richmond web site.

This commercial herb nursery features themed display gardens including the Celestial Garden, the Biblical Garden, the Medieval Garden, the Kitchen Garden, the Fragrance Garden, the Perennial Herb Border, and several more.

This 1752 stone Palladian style manor house features an extensive garden.

This 1750 Georgian mansion, managed by the Williamsburg Foundation, features restored gardens on the riverside.

This 47 acre arboretum promotes urban forestry and education. It displays mature trees, over half of which are over 75 years old, such as oak, pine, maple, beech, dogwood, poplar, pawpaw, gum and eastern white pine.  

The gleaming antebellum mansion showcases formal gardens featuring azaleas, crepe myrtle, boxwood and seasonal flowers.

This 1714 restored brick church includes a church garden with 18th century funereal art. An interesting article about the many restorations.

This renowned living history museum offers 90 acres of colonial gardens and greens, including the Taliaferro-Cole Garden (bulbs, annuals and perennials), the Governor's Palace Gardens (annual and perennial beds), the Benjamin Powell Garden (a "wagon wheel" garden with boxwood parterres and orange tulips), Tiered Topiary at the Chiswell-Bucktrout House, Gardens and Topiary at the Greenhow Tenement (a green garden), The Blue Bell Garden, and the Daylilies behind the Taliaferro-Cole Stable.

This museum, celebrating the life and work of Edgar Allen Poe, includes the Enchanted Garden, a walled garden of evergreens and flowers.

This 125 acre arboretum offers a host of lovely gardens, including the Herb Garden (culinary, medicinal, fragrance/touch and ancient/medieval), the Sinclair Garden (terraced with shrubs and perennials), the Bog Garden (acid-loving plants), the Rock Garden, the Viette Perennial Garden (18 varieties of daylilies and 8varieties of Siberian iris), the Drury Planting (shrubs), the Mid-Atlantic Azalea Garden, Ballard Planting (maidenhair and more), Andrew Wood Memorial Garden (92 species), McDonald Azalea and Rhododendron (500 plants), Fern Valley (a ravine garden), and the new Rose Garden (30 varieties of heirloom roses).

This stunning 1937 Georgian Revival manor house is the center of this family-owned 2,500 acre farm. A formal boxwood garden and a cutting garden grace the landscaped grounds.

This historic 1735 white clapboard house showcases a brick-wall-enclosed garden with massive boxwood hedges and an English-style area of bulbs, perennials, vines, shrubs and flowering trees.

This national monument to the birthplace of George Washington, a re-created Virginia plantation, offers an extensive colonial herb and flower garden.

This 1794 Georgian brick home is ornamented by formal, landscaped grounds and gardens that cover 25 acres. The gardens include pattern gardens, rose gardens, perennial, herb and formal vegetable gardens, a water garden, and a Chinese Garden with a bridge, teahouse and dragon.

This 27 acre park advances the awareness and practice of gardening in Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Visitors are invited to stroll through 20 demonstration gardens, including those designed for shade, water conservation, small townhouse spaces, attracting wildlife, and more.  A winding, wooded Virginia Native Plant Trail borders 2 ponds.  The Horticultural Center includes a greenhouse, a research library, and ongoing art exhibitions.

This 550 acre National Historic Landmark displays restored boxwood gardens with a central allee ornamenting the elegant 1755 brick house.

Display gardens showcase annuals, perennials, shrubs, and trees that are being evaluated for suitability to the Hampton Roads climate and conditions.

Developed to meet bereavement needs of families and the therapeutic needs of patients, this 1 1/2 acre garden is a tribute to children past, present and future as well as their families.

This 60 acre public park with a 3 acre lake features a rose garden with more than 1,000 bushes.

This commemorative museum and library offers a memorial garden.

The plantation home of George Washington's sister highlights an elegant four-square parterre garden edged with boxwoods plus kitchen and cutting gardens and a Wilderness Walk containing native American plants.

This 1799 Federal brick mansion showcases restored 19th-century style gardens.

A commercial herb and flower nursery with display gardens.

This 1785 clapboard house in Old Town, former home of the man who delivered Washington's funeral oration, displays a fine garden with old chestnut trees, a rose garden, and boxwood-edged paths.

Visitors will enjoy 15 acres of lovely gardens on the historic Bloemendaal estate, including the Grace Ardents Garden, the Henry M. Flagler Perennial Garden, the Children's Garden the Lucy Payne Minor Memorial Garden, the Margaret Streb Conifer Garden, the Martha and Reed West Island Garden, the Asian Valley, the Vienna Cobb Anderson Wildflower Meadow,  and more.

A modest 1724 early colonial planter brick house is presented by costumed interpreters and includes 5 acres of grounds with native flowers and vegetable gardens.

Five acres of formal gardens include 8,000 boxwood, dogwood and azaleas, 8 fountains and sculpture from around the world, a wildflower and herb garden, and an all white garden.

George Washington purchased this house for his mother who, felicitously, loved gardening. Her boxwood and flower gardens have been replanted and restored.

This 100 acre grand Victorian country estate is surrounded by rolling lawns in the English park style that form a naturalistic backdrop to a series of gardens including an Italian Garden (terraces, parterres, fountains and statuary), a Japanese garden (45 foot waterfall, pools, raked gravel beds and stones), an European Grotto Garden and an arboretum with several state-champion trees.

This 95 acre garden park features 3 lakes surrounded by weeping cherry trees and floral displays with collections of azaleas, lilies, hostas, daffodils, and daylilies.

This townhouse, dismantled and moved to the present location, is where Thomas Jefferson proved to his host that tomatoes were not poisonous by eating one. The garden has been re-created.

The legendery home of Thomas Jefferson includes a 1000 foot long garden terrace in the nature of a botanic garden (70 species and 250 varieties of vegetables), an 8 acre fruit garden (170 varieties), the Grove (an arboretum of Jefferson's "pet trees"), 20 oval flower beds (in the four corners of the house), the Roundabout Flower Border (a winding walk with flowers on each side) and more.

The lifelong home of James Madison is situated on 2,700 acres of rolling pasturelands, formal gardens and national landmark forest. Gardens include the 2 acre Madison Garden (a terrace garden with a mixture of vegetables, fruit trees, flowers, and ornamental shrubs) and the du Pont Garden (with flower beds, shrubs, and trees, brick garden walls, statuary and ornamental iron gates). The Big Woods trail provides access to the undisturbed Forest.

This magnificent plantation mansion, the center of a 1,200 acre estate, is surrounded by park-like grounds and a boxwood garden.

This elegant 1792 brick Federal style house, home of a wealthy Jewish merchant, features an 18th century garden.

During a well-deserved 6 year respite from the end of the Revolutionary War until his election as president, George Washington re-landscaped Mount Vernon. He created the upper garden as a pleasure garden, filled floral display. A greenhouse housed exotic plants. The lower garden served as a vegetable garden with a small edging of boxwood planted along several beds that can be seen today as mature plants.

This mail-order nursery specializing in iris features display gardens for the Society for Japanese Irises, the Louisiana Iris Society, and for the Median Iris Society.

This State Botanical Garden, begun as a WPA project in 1938, showcases 155 acres of gardens with one of the largest collections of azaleas, camellias, and rhododendrons on the East Coast. The 20 theme garden include the 3.5-acre Bicentennial Rose Garden (3.5 acre garden with more than 4,000 roses representing 250 varieties), the Sarah Lee Baker Perennial Garden, the Four Seasons Garden, the Hofheimer Camellia Garden (300 camellia plants), the Bunny Morgan Memorial Wildflower Meadow, the Renaissance Garden (terraces, a reflecting pool and statuary), the Fragrance Garden (with Braille labels), the Colonial Garden (boxwood-edged parterres enclosing herbs and medicinal plants), the Japanese Garden, the English Border garden, the Tropical Pavillion (exotic plants displayed in geographical regions, Africa, Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, Central and South America), the Holly Garden (121 varieties), the Sunken Garden, the Healing Garden (medicinal plants) and the Flowering Arboretum (17.5 acres with 366 different flowering trees). This wonderful garden can be viewed by trackless train or boat or on 12 miles of pathways. The Garden turns into a haunted forest at Halloween.

This 5,000 acre estate features a 1902 Colonial Revival mansion, a train station, a formal Italian Garden, a Rose Garden, a Cut Flower Garden and rare Crystal Palace-style Greenhouse. It is also the site of Historic Garden Week.

This impressive Greek Revival mansion showcases historic restored gardens which feature a reflecting pool, a boxwood allee leading to a Victorian period teahouse, a rose garden, an annual cutting garden, the Anne Eustis Emmet memorial garden, and a formal herb garden.

This 170 acre arboretum, the State Arboretum of Virginia, features over 5,000 woody plants with 1,000 different varieties and species. It showcases the largest variety of boxwoods in North America (it's headquarters of the American Boxwood Society) and more than half the world's pine species as well as collections of ginkgos, magnolia, maples, oaks, olives, roses, perennial demonstration gardens and a culinary and medicinal herb garden.

Designed by Thomas Jeffersonwith the intention that the pavilion residents (professors) would design, plant, and maintain their own gardens, the formal gardens have been restored as the West Garden and East Garden and are cared for by the Garden Club of Virginia.

Located within a 550 acre park, the Center features a path bordered by dogwoods, azaleas and rhododendrons with benches and statuary.

This Federal-era brick mansion, part of the Lynchburg Museum System, features grounds landscaped by the Garden Club of Virginia.

This plantation, situated on Buggs Island Lake, offers a 1795 Georgian stone manor house and restored slave buildings. The formal gardens were designed in 1796 by Lady Jean Skipwith.

The last home and burial place of Patrick Henry, this memorial site features 7 reconstructed historic buildings, Patrick Henry's grave at the foot of his garden, and an Osage Orange Tree which is a National Champion.

Dating back to land patents in 1653, this historic property is now home to the American Horticultural Society. The lovely gardens include America's Front Yard Garden, the Geroge Harding Memorial Azalea Garden, the Dogwood Collection (Virginia's state tree), the Wildlife Garden (a pond and plants attractive to birds), the Long Border (shade tolerant plants), the Rose Garden (All- America Selection winners), the Herb Garden, the Franklin Grove (franklinias), the Display Gardens, the Children's Gardens, the American Hemerocallis Society collection (100 daylily cultivars), the Garden Calm (shrubs, trees, and perennials that prefer full or part shade), the Perennial Border, and the Orchard, with more gardens to come in the future.

The longest frame home in America and home to President John Tyler, this 1730 Virginia Tidewater style house is features 25 acres of terraced gardens, lawns and woodlands based on the landscape designs of Andrew Jackson Downing. Over 80 varieties of mature trees adorn the grounds.

This plantation, founded in 1607, includes a 1723 brick mansion set amidst 800 acres that features extensive lawns with views of the river and an early 18th century formal boxwood garden.

This living history exhibit of a period plantation includes a recreated kitchen garden showing the various flora of the period.

This restored mid 18th century story-and-a-half brick house has a small kitchen herb garden.

The birthplace of Robert E. Lee, this 1730 Georgian brick "Great House" perched high above the Potomac showcases The East Garden (a terraced "green garden" with irregular boxwood parterres enclosed by brick walls), the recently renovated West Garden (an eighteenth-century flower garden), a vegetable garden, an herb garden, the Slave Garden (herbs and vegetables), plus the North Vista and nature trails.

This garden, featuring plants mentioned in the Old and New Testaments, displays identification labels with the Hebrew name, the botanical name, the common name of the plant and the scripture where plant is mentioned.

This 1680 brick home with English cottage architecture displays historic herb and flower gardens. A photograph of the gardens and grounds.

The 1812 Federal style beautifully restored Wickham house offers the Museum's Garden Cafe set in a lovely garden with high brick and stucco walls, English boxwoods and marble statues.

This reconstruction of a centuries old English manor house, situated on the James River, is graced by gardens designed by Charles Gillette. Formal terrace gardens are contrasted with naturalized grounds showcasing vistas of the river. Pools, canals and statuary are featured.

This extensively managed 1 acre site, currently being enlarged to 4 acres, features annuals, perennials, a water garden, a xerophytic garden, a patio garden and a new conifer display area.

This 53 acre natural habitat zoo on the Lafayette River features 350 animals. In addition to the exhibits, the zoo's horticultural attractions include two greenhouses, an organic rose garden, butterfly gardens, other specialty gardens, and gardening programs (a 4-H Children’s Garden, Garden for the Blind Adults and Sighted Children, and Garden for the Mentally and Physically Challenged).

This 1794 brick Federal and Georgian house features an 18th century style garden.

This 44 acre collection of plants and trees indigenous to the Potomac River
valley promotes the research, education and enjoyment of native plants and trees. The Preserve has forested trails brightened by masses of seasonal woodland plants and shrubs, meadows, and a two acre-pond with a 25 ft waterfall.

A wedding gift from George Washington to his nephew, this gracious 1785 plantation brick Georgian mansion is surrounded by beautifully landscaped grounds that include a rose garden. Also on the site is the Pope-Leighey House, one of Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian houses.

The grounds of this Greek Revival mansion, restored in 3 phases, feature two terraces designed by Charles Gillete (one featuring boxwood-lined bowknot beds), a brick terrace designed by landscape architect Ralph E. Griswold, and a forecourt and lawn around the Museum and garden walkways connecting the Musemm designed by Rudy Favretti.