Public Garden · Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County
Stoneleigh: A Natural Garden
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.
Make a day of it
Nearby
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Harriton House
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.
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Main Line Art Center
A community art center founded in 1937, with changing gallery exhibitions of contemporary work and studio classes for artists of all ages and abilities.
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Chanticleer Garden
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.
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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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Haverford College Arboretum
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.
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Jenkins Arboretum & Gardens
Woodland paths wind past rhododendrons, azaleas and native wildflowers around a pond in this naturalistic garden, which reaches its peak in late spring.
