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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 ...
Arnold Arboretum in 1921. The Arboretum was founded in 1872, when the President and Fellows of Harvard College became trustees of a portion of the estate of James Arnold (1781–1868), a whaling merchant from New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Bartram's Garden is the oldest botanic garden to survive in the United States. [3] John Bartram (1699–1777), well-known in colonial American as a botanist, explorer, and plant collector, established the garden in September 1728 after purchasing a 102-acre (0.41 km 2 ) farm in Kingsessing Township, Philadelphia County for personal use.
Boyce Thompson Arboretum is the oldest and largest botanical garden in the state of Arizona. It is one of the oldest botanical institutions west of the Mississippi River . Founded in 1924 as a desert plant research facility and “living museum”, the arboretum is located in the Sonoran Desert on 392 acres (159 ha) along Queen Creek and ...
This list of botanical gardens and arboretums in Pennsylvania is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Name
The United States National Arboretum was formally established by an act of Congress on 4 March 1927. [1] The act authorized the creation of the arboretum on what was then called Mount Hamilton, but it did not actually appropriate any funding to make that happen. [4]
Today the arboretum contains more than 11,000 labelled plants of over 2,500 taxa, representing the temperate floras of North America, Asia, and Europe. Significant collections include native azaleas , conifers , hollies , magnolia species, maples , roses , and witch-hazels .
Today's grounds are primarily the design of John DeWolf, and date between 1896 and 1913. [4] The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [1] Blithewold's grounds include species from North America, Europe, China and Japan.