Destination Gardens

 

Everyone, young and old, enjoys visiting a garden.  Think about it.  When’s the last time you visited a destination garden that took your breath away?  Just walking into a lovely garden will calm visitors almost immediately.  Additionally, you can gain ideas for your own home garden even on a smaller scale.

Which garden locations would be a destination garden trip for you?

This is my list of favorite destination gardens:

The Gardens at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia

Claude Monet’s Breathtaking Giverny Garden in France.

Claude Monet’s Giverny Garden (Courtesy giverny.org, Photo by Ariane Cauderlier)

The duPont’s Winterthur House and Gardens in Winterthur, Delaware

Courtesy Winterthur

The lovely Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania

Monarch Butterfly (Courtesy longwoodgardens.org)

The US Botanic Garden in Washington, DC

Courtesy USBG

The United States National Arboretum in Washington, DC

The San Francisco Botanical Garden in San Francisco, California

Credit: T. Morosco

The San Diego Botanic Garden in San Diego, California

Courtesy SDBG