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Peckerwood Garden
Spiky yucca punctuates this conservation garden...
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Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden
Classical gardens of the Ming dynasty, original...
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Innisfree
"Cup gardens," a Chinese garden design in which...
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Ruth Bancroft Garden
More than 2,000 succulents, cacti, trees, and s...
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National Tropical Botanical Garden
Kauai is Hawaii's "garden island," home to four...
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Madoo
Landscape painter Robert Dash believed that gar...
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Ohme Gardens
Native evergreens, western red cedar, and Dougl...
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Chanticleer
This 35-acre estate garden west of Philadelphia...
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Franciscan Monastery Gardens
The existence of this monastery tucked into the...
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Mckee Botanical Garden
One of Florida's earliest public gardens opened...
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Celia Thaxter's Garden
Poppies pop up from the cutting plots that poet...
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Naumkeag
The Choate family's 44-room summer "cottage," d...
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Afton Villa Gardens
Allées of live oaks dripping with Spanish moss ...
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Dow Gardens
More than 1,700 hardy varieties of plants blank...
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Lyndale Park Gardens
When Minneapolis isn't freezing, it's blooming....
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Betty Ford Alpine Garden
Alpine plants are the stars at this spectacular...
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Tohono Chul Park
This garden's name means "desert corner" in the...
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Lotusland
In 1941, flamboyant Polish opera singer Ganna W...
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Shore Acres
Surely one of America's most beautiful state pa...
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Japanese Garden
ome 40 years ago a Japanese idea was planted in...
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Nani Mau Gardens
Gardeners love rain, and at Nani Mau they get a...
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Jardins de Métis
Situated at the confluence of the Métis and St....
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Secret Gardens from National Geographic Traveler
Soothing places of surprise and Sanctuary in the U.S. and Canada

Text by George W. Stone

National Geographic Traveler

*****

Expert Consultants

Dr. Marc Cathey, President Emeritus, American Horticultural Society; former director, U.S. National Arboretum.

Gordon Hayward, garden designer, author, and lecturer, Horticulture, Fine Gardening.

Nathan Heavers, head gardener, Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.

Jack Ruttle, garden writer and columnist, Garden Design.

Jim Yoch, garden designer and author, Landscaping the American Dream: The Gardens and Film Sets of Florence Yoch.

Published in the March 2005 issue of National Geographic Traveler.
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