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America
America's botanical gardens: living plant museums begun with Bartram's Garden (1728, Philadelphia) and the U.S. Botanic Garden (1820), now over 800 U.S. institutions with 80 million annual visits, documented collections, and plant trialing programs.
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum: 98-acre Tucson fusion of zoo, botanical garden, natural history museum, aquarium, and art gallery founded in 1952 by William H. Carr, devoted solely to the Sonoran Desert.
Bok Tower Gardens
Bok Tower Gardens, also called Historic Bok Sanctuary, is a National Historic Landmark garden and 205-foot Singing Tower with a 60-bell carillon in Lake Wales, Florida, dedicated by President Coolidge on February 1, 1929.
Botanical gardens and arboreta of the Midwestern United States
The botanical gardens and arboreta of the Midwestern United States span ornamental gardens like the 385-acre Chicago Botanic Garden and large arboreta like the 1,700-acre Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois.
Botanical gardens and arboretums of the Western United States
The botanical gardens and arboretums of the Western United States are the major public plant collections of the Pacific coast, mountain states, Southwest, and Hawaii.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG), founded 1910 in Brooklyn, New York, is a 52-acre not-for-profit botanic garden beside Prospect Park, known for its 1915 Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden by Takeo Shiota, cherry blossom festival, and education programs.
Cleveland Botanical Gardens
Cleveland Botanical Garden, a ten-acre botanical garden and conservatory in University Circle, Cleveland, Ohio; founded 1930 as the Garden Center of Greater Cleveland, the country's oldest civic garden center; since 2014 part of Holden Forests & Gardens with the Holden Arboretum.
Cypress Gardens
Cypress Gardens, Winter Haven, Florida botanical garden and theme park founded by Dick and Julie Pope, opened January 2, 1936, closed September 23, 2009; famed for water ski shows and Southern Belles; site now LEGOLAND Florida, distinct from the South Carolina preserve.
Dumbarton Oaks
Dumbarton Oaks is a Georgetown, Washington, D.C. estate whose Beatrix Farrand gardens were given in 1940 to Harvard (research institute, museum) and to the National Park Service (Dumbarton Oaks Park).
Japanese Friendship Garden (United States)
Japanese Friendship Garden (United States): sister-city Japanese-style gardens, chiefly San-Kei-En in San Diego's Balboa Park (opened 1991, Yokohama, 12 acres) and Rohoen in Phoenix (Himeji, 3.5 acres), plus the 1965 San Jose garden.
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center: botanic garden, arboretum, and native plant research institution in south Austin, Texas, founded in 1982 by Lady Bird Johnson and Helen Hayes and part of the University of Texas at Austin since 2006.
Longwood Gardens
Longwood Gardens is a public botanical garden in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, created by Pierre S. du Pont, who bought the Peirce farm in 1906 to save its historic trees.
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum: University of Minnesota public garden and horticultural research facility near Chanhassen/Chaska, established 1958, 1,200 acres, about 700,000 annual visitors, known for cold-hardy plant breeding including Honeycrisp.
Morris Arboretum
Morris Arboretum & Gardens is a 92-acre public garden and educational institution of the University of Pennsylvania in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, opened to the public in 1933.
New York Botanical Garden
The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG), founded 1891 in the Bronx, is a 250-acre National Historic Landmark garden and research institution housing the Steere Herbarium (7.8 million specimens) and Mertz Library.
Phipps Conservatory
Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: 1893 Lord & Burnham glasshouse in Schenley Park, gift of Henry Phipps; 15 acres, seasonal flower shows, LEED sustainability, Chihuly glass art.
Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine
Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine: 10-acre Pacific Palisades meditation sanctuary on Sunset Boulevard, founded by Paramahansa Yogananda, dedicated 1950, spring-fed Lake Santa Ynez, Gandhi ashes memorial, survived the 2025 Palisades Fire.
Shorts Ground Cover Garden
Shorts Ground Cover Garden, a 1992 groundcover display garden at Bellevue Botanical Garden, Washington, created from Harriet Shorts' idea, renovated and dedicated to her in 2002, with a recirculated stream and Tateuchi Pavilion.
United States Botanic Garden
United States Botanic Garden (USBG), a living plant museum at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.; oldest continuously operating public garden in the U.S., established by Congress in 1820, administered by the Architect of the Capitol since 1934, free admission, over one million annual visitors.
Yao Garden
Yao Garden, a Japanese-style garden at Bellevue Botanical Garden, Washington, honoring Bellevue's sister city Yao, Japan; established 1971 at Kelsey Creek Park, relocated 1992, opened 1994, with a Sukiya-style gate.