Cady Falls Nursery: 637 Duhamel Road,
Morrisville, VT 05661 (802)888-5559
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This nursery, established in 1980, features extraordinary gardens including Perennial Gardens, Peonies, Woodland Gardens, Ferns,
Hosta, Ladyslippers, Pond Gardens, Bog Garden, Rock Garden, Wall Gardens, Vines, Conifer Collection and Miniature Gardens.
Cider Hill Gardens: 1747
Hunt Road,
Windsor, VT 05089 (802)674-6825.
- This commercial nursery with
display gardens and an art gallery specializes in woodland flowers,
primroses, peonies, daylillies and hostas and offers plant talks and guided
garden tours.
Equinox
Valley Nursery: Historic Route 7A,
Manchester,
VT (802)362-2610.
- This retail nursery and landscaping business offers a
tropical conservatory and display gardens.
Greatwood
Gardens: Goddard College, 123 Pitkin Road,
Plainfield,
VT 05667 (802)454-8311.
- The college is situated on the former Greatwood Farms
Estate which included professionally landscaped gardens.
Gardens at Hildene:
Historic Route 7A, P.O. Box 377,
Manchester, VT
05254 (802) 362-1788.
- 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.
Labour of Love Landscaping and Nursery: 9 Sargent Lane Route 16,
Glover, VT 05839 (802)525-6695.
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This nursery features display gardens showcasing over 800 varieties of Zone-3-hardy perennials and fill-ins of
selectively-bred annual poppies in rainbow colors, with picnic tables among the flowers and along the river's edge.
From alpine miniatures to background giants, English cottage gardens to formal displays, a breathtaking
succession of flowering includes riverside and hillside plantings, a shade display garden, a daylily field with
150 varieties, enormous diversity of plantings in a small space (total area is just under an acre).
Little Siberia Perennials: 966 Maston Hill
Road,
Granville, VT 05747 (802)767-3391.
- 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.
Morrill Homestead: 214 Justin Morrill Memorial Highway,
Strafford, Vermont 05072 (802)765-4388.
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This homestead of a former US Senator, now a National Historic Site, includes recently restored gardens with
special woody plants, a pleasure garden, and kitchen/flower gardens.
Although his avocation of landscape gardening was cut short by his entry
into politics in 1854, Morrill's designs and plantings for the walkways and the gardens surrounding the house are in the best tradition of the romantic landscape movement in America
and the original plantings, selected to test suitability to the harsh
Vermont climate, survive, including species from Europe and the Orient.
Park McCullough House: Corner Park & West Streets, P.O. Box 388,
North Bennington, VT 05257 (802)442-5441.
- This French Empire style mansion, home to two of
Vermont's Governors, offers beautifully landscaped gardens and grounds.
Rocky Dale Gardens: 62 Rocky Dale Road,
Bristol, VT 05443 (802)453-2782.
- This retail nursery, situated in a vale amidst rock
ledges, offers display gardens with common and unusual trees and plants.
Shelburne Farms:
1611 Harbor Road,
Shelburne, VT 05482
(802)985-8686.
- 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!
Shelburne Museum:
Route 7,
Shelburne, VT 05482 (802)985-3346.
- 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).
A Stone Wall Inn: 576 Hitchcock Hill Road,
Windham, VT 05359 (802)875-4238
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This unique architectural creation (run as a bed and breakfast) uniting the man-made and natural environments showcases 5 acres of perennial flowers,
fruit trees, flowering shrubs and lawns. This zone 4 garden is designed with mass plantings for color and dramatic accents, with many of the plants are
selected for butterfly and hummingbird pollination.
University of Vermont Horticultural Research Center: Green Mountain
Drive,
South Burlington, VT (802)658-9166
(Manager) or (802)864-3073 (Friends).
- 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.
Vermont
Garden Park (formerly called the Vermont Community Botanical Garden): Corner of
Dorset and Swift Streets,
South Burlington, VT
(802)863-5251 x123.
- Home to the
National
Gardening Association, this 20 acre new botanical garden features a
butterfly garden, a community garden, a children's garden,
ademonstration garden, an ethnic heritage garden, a wildlife garden, a
vegetable and herb garden, an All-America Selections garden, a secret
garden and a maze. Additional features are an orchard, rose garden,
multiple greenhouses, amphitheater, lawns, and a library.
Vermont
Wildflower Farm: 4750 Shelburne Road (Route 7 at Ferry Road),
Charlotte, VT 05445 (802)425-3641 (855)846-9453.
- This wildflower seed company's headquarters offers
paths with signs through two flower fields and a woodland with a brook
and pond.