Public Garden · Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County

Henry Foundation for Botanical Research

A rocky hillside garden of native plants gathered by botanist Mary Gibson Henry on her collecting expeditions, many of them through the Southeast, and kept as a living research collection.

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Nearby

  • Harriton House

    Historic house · 2 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 · 3 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 · 3 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.

  • 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.

  • Woodmere Art Museum

    Museum · 4 miles away

    Art by the city's own painters, sculptors and craftspeople, shown in a Victorian stone mansion on the edge of the Wissahickon in Chestnut Hill.

  • Morris Arboretum and Gardens of the University of Pennsylvania

    Public Garden · 4 miles away

    The University of Pennsylvania's arboretum in Chestnut Hill, with a walk through the tree canopy, a Victorian fernery and a garden railway.