GARDEN TOURS
CONNECTICUT AND NEW YORK CITY AREA
CONNECTICUT HISTORIC GARDENS
Philip Johnson Glass House
New Canaan, CT
Landscape tours May - October. Garden designed by Johnson and Whitney.
Johnson the famous American architect and founder of the Architect Department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Beatrix Farrand Gardens in Connecticut
If you are looking for interesting garden tours there are three (3) famous gardens designed and created, within the State of Connecticut, by the renowned American woman landscape architect . Harkness summer home Eolia in currently preserved as Harkness State Park in Waterford, CT; the Alfred Atmore-Pope family's Sunken Garden at the Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, CT; and the Gardens at Promisek in Bridgewater, CT. Her papers are archived at the University of California-Berkeley and Harvard.
Connecticut Botanical Garden
Bridgeport, CT
One of the original public botanical gardens in the State of Connecticut
is found at the Connecticut State Zoo in Bridgeport
Bartlett Arboretum
Stamford, CT
Renown arboretum in southwestern Connecticut, 30 miles from
New York City
New York City areaEW YORK CITY AREA GARDENS
Wave Hill
Bronx, NY
Famous botanical garden along the Hudson River - Website: Wave Hill
New York Botanical Garden
Bronx, New York
Native Plant Center
Valhalla, NY
If you would like to view and visit a local example of the Lady Bird Johnson WildFlower program check the website http://NativePlantCenter.org which is based nearby in Valhalla, NY at Westchester Community College. They have demonstration gardens to tour, a yearly plant sale, and a membership program. Native Plant Center was the first affiliate of the Lady Bird Johnson WildFlower Center which is based in Texas,