PA Getaway

Pleasure garden · Radnor Township, Delaware County

Chanticleer Garden

Chanticleer Garden: A picture the main house at the Chanticleer Garden
Photo: Photo by and (c)2007 Derek Ramsey ( Ram-Man ). Co-attribution must be given to the Chanticleer Garden. Both parties have shared, contractual copyright control., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A former family estate turned 'pleasure garden,' with an imaginative ruin garden, a teacup garden, exuberant borders, and benches and bridges handcrafted by the gardeners themselves.

What you will find

  • Garden

Make a day of it

Nearby

  • Stoneleigh: A Natural Garden

    Public Garden · 3 miles away

    Replanted with native species, the gardens of this former Main Line estate, now run by the conservation group Natural Lands, spread among old trees, lawns, meadows and woodland.

  • Jenkins Arboretum & Gardens

    Public Garden · 3 miles away

    Woodland paths wind past rhododendrons, azaleas and native wildflowers around a pond in this naturalistic garden, which reaches its peak in late spring.

  • Harriton House

    Historic house · 4 miles away

    The 1704 stone house where Charles Thomson, secretary of the Continental Congress, spent his later years, now a house museum set among fields and woods.

  • Main Line Art Center

    Museum · 4 miles away

    A community art center founded in 1937, with changing gallery exhibitions of contemporary work and studio classes for artists of all ages and abilities.

  • Haverford College Arboretum

    Public Garden · 5 miles away

    The whole college campus is an arboretum, with a duck pond, a pinetum and a nature trail that loops past grand old trees and open fields.

  • Valley Forge National Historical Park

    National historical park · 5 miles away

    Where Washington's Continental Army camped through the winter of 1777-78: rolling fields, rebuilt huts, his headquarters and miles of trails.