Adkins Arboretum: 12610 Eveland
Road, Tuckahoe State Park, P.O. Box 100,
Ridgely, MD 21660 (410)634-2847.
Baltimore
(Howard Peters Rawlings) Conservatory and Botanic Garden: Druid Hill Park, Gwynns Fall Parkway and McCulloh
Street,
Baltimore, MD 21209 (410)396-0180.
- Now undergoing renovation and
expansion, the Conservatory, currently features a palm house, four greenhouses
and outdoor gardens, will become a 7 acre botanic garden.
Brighton Dam Azalea Garden:
2 Brighton Dam Road,
Brookeville, MD 20833(301)206-7485
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Established in 1959, this garden along the banks of the Patuxent River is home to over 20,000 azalea bushes planted
over 5 acres in a hardwood forest. Kousa dogwood trees were added in the 1990’s and the garden is also home to Montgomery County’s champion fringe tree.
Brookside Gardens: 1800 Glenallan
Avenue, Wheaton Regional Park,
Wheaton, MD 20902 (301)949-8230.
- This marvelous
50 acre public garden includes an azalea garden, a rose garden, a yew garden, a
formal garden, a fragrance garden, a Japanese style garden, a trial garden, two
conservatories and a visitor center. Check the web site to see what's in bloom
this month.
Christ Church
Biblical Garden: 3100 Broomes Island Road, Route 264,
Port Republic, MD
20676 (410)586-0565.
- This historic Gothic Revival Church features a biblical
garden.
Civic Center Park and Glenview Mansion: Baltimore Road and Edmonston Drive,
Rockville, MD 20847 (301)309-3001 or 3007.
- This 153-acre is the site of historic
Glenview Mansion as well as lovely terraced gardens.
Cylburn Arboretum:
4915 Greenspring Avenue,
Baltimore, MD 21209 (410)367-2217.
- This 176 acre nature
preserve offers guided tours of the nature trails and gardens including a garden
of the senses for the disabled, a formal perennial garden, an All America
Selections Display garden and an herb garden.
Evergreen House: Johns Hopkins
University, 4545 North Charles Street,
Baltimore, MD 21210 (410)516-0341.
- This
extravagant Italianate mansion, situated on 26 acres, includes a private
theatre, carriage house, and formal gardens.
Hampton National Historic Site:
(Exit 27B off I-695), 535 Hampton Lane,
Towson, MD 21286 (410)823-1309.
- Hampton
preserves a vast agricultural estate (once 25,000 acres, now 43 acres) from the
1700s with a Georgian mansion set amid formal gardens and shade trees (including
state champion trees). The impressive grounds reflect formal English landscape
design principles.
Helen
Avalynne Tawes Garden: 580 Taylor Ave. at Rowe Boulevard, Next to Dept. of
Natural Resources Building,
Annapolis, MD 21401 (410)260-8189.
- This lovely five
acre garden reflects the state’s various geographic areas including a Western
Maryland forest, a streamside environment and an Eastern Shore peninsula.
Historic
Sotterly: 44300 Sotterly Lane,
Hollywood, MD 20636
(301)373-2280 or (800)681-0850.
- This colonial Plantation on the banks of the
Patuxent River consists of 70 acres of rolling fields, gardens and riverfront.
Visitors will delight in the formal garden (with a children's corner) and herb
gardens.
Historical Society of Talbot County Gardens:
25 S. Washington Street,
Easton, MD 21601 (410)822-0773.
- The grounds of the
Museum contain Federal style gardens maintained by the Talbot County Garden
Club.
Ladew Topiary Gardens: 3535
Jarrettsville Pike,
Monkton, MD 21111 (443)557-9570.
- Ladew features fabulous
topiary plus 15 theme gardens on 22 acres. The Gardens include the Woodland
Garden, the Victorian Garden, the Berry Garden, the Croquet Court, the Pink
Garden, the Formal Rose Garden, the Cottage Garden, the Orchard, the Waterlily
Garden, the Red Garden, the Yellow Garden, the White Garden, the Teahouse, the
Sculpture Garden, the Iris Garden, and the Terrace Garden.
Lilypons Water Gardens: 6800 Lilypons
Road, Box 10,
Buckeystown, MD 21717-0010 (800)999-5459.
- The growing gardens for
this retail nursery of water plants includes over 500 ponds.
London Town House and
Museum: 839 Londontown Road,
Edgewater, MD 21037 (410)222-1919.
- This garden
on the banks of the South River offers an 8 acre naturalistic woodland garden
with special collections of narcissi, magnolias, hollies, native azaleas and
peonies. Plants which thrive in a wooded, tidewater setting are featured.
McCrillis
Gardens and Gallery: 6910 Greentree Road,
Bethesda, MD 20817 (301)365-1657.
- This lovely 5 acre shade garden features more than 750 azaleas planted among
ornamental trees and shrubs. Bulbs, groundcovers and shade-loving perennials
extend the season. The Garden is managed by
Brookside Gardens, above.
Mount Clare Museum House: Carroll
Park, 1500 Washington Boulevard,
Baltimore, MD 21230 (410)837-3262.
- This 1760
Georgian mansion, home to a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was the
center of an 800 acre Patapsco River plantation.
National Colonial Farm: Piscataway Park,
3400 Bryan Point Road,
Accokeek, MD 20607 (301)283-2113.
- Presenting the life of
middle-class tobacco farmers of 1775, this Farm displays an extensive garden
with 18th century varieties of herbs, flowers, and vegetables, as well as
historic varieties of field crops such as Orinoco tobacco, Virginia Gourdseed
corn and Red May wheat.
Pell Gardens: Ferryslip Road,
Chesapeake City, MD
(410)885-2415.
- A newly renovated waterfront public park with benches, gardens and fishing.
Perkins Azalea Garden:
Landon School, 6101 Wilson Lane,
Bethesda, MD 20817-3199 (301)320-3200.
- The
school opens its 2 1/2 acre formal azalea garden to the public one weekend a
year so visitors may enjoy the 15,000 azaleas and also the rhododendron, pieris,
rare tree peonies and a collection of native wildflowers.
Rash Field Flower
Garden: Inner Harbor South,
Baltimore, MD (410)244-1030.
- Part of Baltimore's
bustling waterfront.
Salisbury
University Arboretum: 1101 Camden Avenue,
Salisbury, MD 21801-6861
(410)543-6323.
- Salisbury University's campus with its brick buildings and abundant greenery
(including 750 plant species) has arboretum status from the American Association
of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta.
Schifferstadt
Architectural Museum Gardens: 110 Rosemont Avenue, Baker Park,
Frederick, MD
20701 (301) 663-3885.
- This 1756 German colonial house is surrounded by grounds
that include a young apple orchard, flower beds, and a fenced four-square
garden. The raised beds feature herbs and include 18th century varieties of
vegetables and small fruits.
Sherwood Gardens:
4100 Greenway St. at Stratford Road,
Baltimore, MD 21212-0677 (410)323-7982.
- In
addition to the glorious 80,000 tulips, this garden features 6 acres of azaleas,
English boxwoods, flowering cherries, dogwoods, magnolias, wisterias, some
plants dating back to the 18th century.
Surreybrooke: 8537 Hollow
Road,
Middletown, MD 21769-8522 (301)371-7466.
- This 15 acre nursery farm
includes 3 acres of gardens open to the public.
William Paca Garden:
1 Martin Street,
Annapolis, MD 21401 (800) 603-4020 or (410) 263-5553 .
- This
elegant Georgian residence, built as a town home for a signer of the Declaration
of Independence, displays a lovely 2 acre pleasure garden featuring five
terraces, a fish-shaped pond, a Chinese Chippendale bridge, formal parterres,
heirloom plants and a wilderness garden.