Barrett House:
Main Street,
New Ipswich, NH 03071 (617)878-2517.
- The landscaped grounds of this 1800 House include 75
acres of woods, meadows and a Greek Revival summerhouse. Of special note is
the Grandmother's
Garden, filled with old-fashioned flowers such as poppies, hollyhocks,
and morning glories, as well as hard-to-find varieties.
Bedrock Gardens: High Road,
Lee, NH 03861
- The lush 30 acres of gardens mix sculpture with plants.
This private garden is open for specific events and open houses only.
Cathedral of the Pines:
10 Hale Hill Road,
Rindge, NH 03461 (603)899-3300.
- This outdoor shrine to Americans killed in war features
two gardens, two chapels and an altar built out of stones from every state
and territory.
Distant Hill Gardens: 507 March Hill Road,
Walpole, NH 03608 (603)756-4179
- This environmental and horticultural learning center is dedicated to inspiring
and empowering children and adults to cultivate an intimate connection to the natural world. By striving
to work with Nature and not control her, the cultivated gardens developed over the last 25 years are neither
wild nor formal but rather an attempt to take the beauty
of the natural world and add to it the creativity of man. The 58 acre site includes 10 vernal (spring)
pools that are home to a fascinating diversity of vertabrate and invertabrate creatures, trails, stonework
and whimsical metal sculptures.
Enfield Shaker Museum:
447 N. Route 4A,
Enfield, NH 03748 (603)632-4346.
- Once encompassing 200 buildings and 3,000 acres of
farmland dedicated to the Shaker mission to establishing heaven on earth,
this historic site is now a living history museum offering self-guided tours
of 13 Shaker buildings, Shaker Gardens, and skilled artisans demonstrating
traditional crafts.
The Fells, John Jay National
Wildlife Refuge: 456 Route 103A North,
Newbury, NH
03255 Refuge Manager: (978)443-4661 or Friends: (603)763-4789.
- The Fells (the term means rocky, upland pastures) offers
a historic summer cottage and gardens, with woodland trails and abundant
wildlife. The Rock Garden displays 600 species and cultivars of rock garden
and alpine plants. A
Garden
Conservancy Garden.
Fuller Gardens: 10
Willow Avenue off Route 1A,
North Hampton, NH 03862
(603)964-5414.
- This 2 acre formal gardens showcases an All-America Rose
Selections display garden (1,500 bushes), perennials, All-America Award
Winning annuals, a Hosta display garden, a conservatory (tropical and desert
plants), a wildflower walk, fountains, statuary, and a Japanese garden.
The Fuller Foundation.
Kimball-Jenkins Estate:
266 North Main Street,
Concord, NH 03301
(603)225-3932.
- This 1765 mansion, now ran art gallery and studio includes
extensive formal gardens.
Kirkland Gardens: Rte. 3
Holderness, NH (603)968-7194.
- This free public garden offers visitors a sunny
informal lower garden showcasing sun-loving shrubs, trees, and
perennials and a shaded upper garden with a large variety of ferns,
hostas, azaleas, rhododendrons. In addition a lovely sculpture, a
sundial, a millstone fountain, and a wooden pergola add to the charm
with plentiful birds and butterflies in residence.
Langdon House:
143 Pleasant Street,
Portsmouth, NH 03801
(603)436-3205.
- At the rear of this 1784 house formerly belonging to
Governor John Langdon, a lawn is shaded by mature trees and enclosed by
hedges and a perennial flower border. A 100-foot rose and grape arbor leads
to a small pavilion.
Lost River Nature Garden:
Lost River Reservation, 1712 Lost River Road, Route 112W, North
Woodstock, NH 03262 (602)745-8031.
- This natural wonder, a river and its gorge and caverns,
includes a nature garden.
Moffatt Ladd House: 154
Market Street,
Portsmouth, NH 03801 (603)436-8221
(house) or (603)436-7968 (office).
- This 1763 house offers 2 1/2 acres of mid 19th century
gardens, including brick walks, rose arbors, an herb garden, raised flower
beds, grass steps, grape arbor and old beehives.
Mt. Washington Resort:
Route 302,
Bretton Woods, NH 03575 (800)258-0330
(603)278-1000.
- This grand resort hotel in a breathtaking mountain
setting displays a host of lovely flower beds.
Pickity Place: Nutting
Hill Road,
Mason, NH 03048 (603)878-1151.
- This quaint 200 year home was the model for the story of
Little Red Riding Hood. Now an operating restaurant, nursery and gift shop,
the grounds includes a greenhouse (with over 270 varieties of herbs,
heathers, scented geraniums and unusual perennials) and lovely gardens.
Prescott Park: 105 Marcy Street,
Portsmouth, NH 03801 (603)431-8748.
- This public park, home to an
Arts Festival, features a large formal garden with
fountain and an All-America Trial Garden with over 500 varieties of annuals.
Rhododendron State Park: Route 119W,
Fitzwilliam,
NH 03477 (603)532-8862.
- This National Natural Landmark, New Hampshire's only
botanical state park, features 16 acres of wild Rhododendrons which bloom in
mid-July. The site also includes a wildflower trail and an historic cottage.
Rundlet-May
House: 364 Middle Street, P
ortsmouth, NH 03801
(603)436-3205.
- This imposing 1807 Federal style house is surrounded by
formal terraces, garden beds, and extensive fruit orchards clearly
delineated by fences, a geometric system of paths, and rows of shrubs.
Saint Gaudens National Historic
Site: (
Friends' Website) 139 St.-Gaudens
Road Off Route 12A,
Cornish, NH 03745 (603)675-2175.
- The Federal style home and studios of Augustus
Saint-Gaudens, one of America's greatest sculptors, offers sophisticated
landscaping including a terraced perennial garden (Italian influenced
including three terraces and sculpture), a cutting garden, a pergola, the
Birch Grove and Pan Fountain Garden, a birch allee, and hundred year old
hedges.
Sandy Point Discovery Center:
Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, 89 Depot Road,
Greenland, NH 03840 (603)778-0015.
- This interpretive exhibits explores the
interrelationships between wildlife, Great Bay, and the ocean. In addition
to native plant gardens and a Native American vegetable garden, the site
offers 50 acres of mixed-upland forest, freshwater wetlands and extensive
salt marshes, with access to all three habitats via a wheel-chair accessible
1700-foot boardwalk.
Shin-boku Nursery Stroll Garden: 180 Beech Hill Road,
Wentworth, NH 03282 (603)764-9993
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This delightful Stroll Garden, with a meandering path for walking and viewing, features about 500 Japanese style pruned trees, some 80 years old.
Other features include a white marble chip Karesansui dry garden, many older Japanese style garden trees, Japanese Stone Lanterns and bridges.
Shrine of Our Lady of Grace: Rural Route 1,
Colebrook, NH 03576 (602)237-5511.
- This shrine with 50 religious monuments (including
Praying Motorcyclists -- the site of the annual Blessing of the Motorcycles)
offers beautifully landscaped grounds.
Strawbery Banke Museum:
14 Hancock Street,
Portsmouth, NH 03801 (603)433-1100.
- This 10-acre site exhibits more than 40 historic
buildings dating in a settlement dating from 1630. Gardens includes the
Thomas Bailey Aldrich Memorial Garden (laid out in 1908), a mid-to-late 19th
century garden beside the Goodwin House (separate beds edged in slate and
planted with colorful annuals) and a modern exhibit garden at the corner of
Jefferson and Atkinson Streets (with 18th century herbs.
Tarbin Gardens: 321 Salsbury Road Route 127S,
Franklin, NH, 03235 (603)935-3518
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Five acres of gardens have been carved from a large wooded lot on land scoured by glacial erosion, creating a dramatic
setting for a varied series of gardens showcasing plants that can be grown in central New Hampshire. Gardens include
the Alpine Slope, Mother's Day Garden, Catalpa Garden, Mayapple Dell, Bog Garden, the Formal Garden, the Tropical House, the
Succulent House, ponds, statuary, paths and exotic animals and birds.
Urban Forestry Center: New Hampshire Division of Forest and Lands, 45 Elwyn
Road off Route 1,
Portsmouth, NH 03801 (603)431-6774.
- This 180 acre park offers nature trails, an arboretum,
a children's garden, a garden for the senses, herb and perennial gardens,
and a historic house.