Green Spring Gardens is a "must visit" park. It's a year-round gold mine of information and inspiration for the home gardener. It's an outdoor classroom for learning about plants and wildlife. It's a museum and a national historic site that offers glimpses into a long, rich history with colonial origins. Families occupied and adapted the Green Spring landscape and buildings from the late 1700s until the mid-20th century. Today visitors can walk among the gardens, view changing art exhibits, enjoy tea with a tour or program, and shop in the unique museum shop.
The park has a wooded stream valley with ponds, a naturalistic native plant garden, more than 20 thematic demonstration gardens, a greenhouse filled with tropicals, and a well-stocked horticultural reference library. There's a horticulture center, a historic landscape and buildings, the Garden Gate Plant Shop and two gift shops where you'll find gift ideas ranging from books and gardening gloves to china and wind chimes. The gardens are always changing, so come back often for new ideas.
For park information, call 703-642-5173.
