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This list of botanical gardens and arboretums in Virginia is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the U.S. state of Virginia [1] [2] [3] Name Image
Virginia Beach: Virginia Beach: Hampton Roads: 4,321 acres, Wash Woods Environmental Center for ecological studies, park also offers nature programs First Landing State Park: Virginia Beach: Virginia Beach: Hampton Roads: 2,888 acres, Chesapeake Bay Center, environmental programs Frogshackle Nature Center: Sterling: Loudoun: Northern
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Virginia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, other historic registers, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]
Green Spring Gardens (31 acres) is a public park, including a historic 18th-century plantation house "Green Spring", which is the heart of a national historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. [1]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Hampton, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. [1]
The oldest surviving botanical garden in the United States is Bartram's Garden in Pennsylvania. [1] [2] This list is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the United States. [3] [4] [5] The total number of botanical gardens recorded in the United States depends on the criteria used, and is in the range from 296 ...
The Norfolk Botanical Garden was founded through the collaboration between Norfolk City Manager Thomas P. Thompson and horticulturalist Frederic Heutte.In 1938, the pair were granted 75 acres (300,000 m 2) of high, wooded ground plus 75 acres (300,000 m 2) of reservoir for a city garden.
The city used the property as a tree nursery and greenhouse supplying bedding plants for city parks for 13 years while plans to establish a botanical garden were investigated. In 1981, the non-profit Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden corporation was chartered to finally establish the botanical garden using funds from the Grace E. Arents Trust.