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Visit These Botanical Gardens Near Long Island This Spring
Springtime on Long Island means it's time to get outside and experience this nice weather and sunshine. Wildflowers are blooming all around, and we're ready to enjoy them.
Luckily, there are plenty of places in Suffolk and Nassau Counties to do just that. These botanical gardens and arboretums are at the top of our real estate agents' list of great places to see spring blooms on Long Island.
- Clark Botanic Garden - 193 I U Willets Rd, Albertson, NY 11507
Designed as a serene oasis amid suburban Nassau County, the Clark Botanic Garden is a beautiful, peaceful place to take a stroll on a spring day. This 12-acre garden was first planted in 1969, and it serves as a living museum as much as a park space. More than a dozen themed areas within the garden are dedicated to specific groups of plants, including daylilies, roses, conifers, herbs, wetland plants, rock garden plants, butterfly plants, and medicinal plants. - Old Westbury Gardens - 71 Old Westbury Rd, Old Westbury, NY 11568
Once the estate of businessman John Shaffer Phipps, an heir to the Phipps family fortune, Old Westbury Gardens was converted from a private residence to a public museum home in 1959. The gardens surrounding the home are every bit as mesmerizing as the mansion itself, arguably even more so in springtime. Virtually unchanged since the 1950s, the gardens are nestled in a property that spans 216 acres and includes English-style perennials and biennials as well as uncommon plant species like foxgloves and delphiniums. - Planting Fields Arboretum - 1395 Planting Fields Rd, Oyster Bay, NY 11771
Oyster Bay's Planting Fields Arboretum is an expansive 400-acre state park that encompasses some of Long Island's most beautiful countryside. The park includes numerous themed gardens and specimen plantings that surround a Roaring 20s-era mansion. The landscape very much resembles an English park, and it was designed with help from the renowned Olmsted Brothers, some of the most respected landscape architects of their era. - Bridge Gardens - 36 Mitchell Ln, Bridgehampton, NY 11932
Operated by the Peconic Land Trust, the Bridge Gardens offer a lovely 5-acre oasis in the village of Bridgehampton. Popular among bird watchers, this hidden gem includes picturesque hedgerows, a large demonstration vegetable garden, rose gardens, and a unique 4-quadrant herb garden that includes plantings of culinary and medicinal herbs. The Bridge Gardens are open to the public seven days a week. - Bailey Arboretum - 194 Bayville Rd, Locust Valley, NY 11560
Nestled in the small village of Lattingtown on Long Island's North Shore, the Bailey Arboretum is a charming 42-acre park that was first opened to the public in 1969. The arboretum includes seven acres of lawns with planted garden beds, several ponds surrounded by tall trees and shady benches, and several beautifully manicured woodland trails that meander beneath a thick canopy of mature trees. The most notable specimens of the Bailey Arboretum are several dawn redwoods, which were thought to be extinct until they were discovered in China in the 1940s and subsequently planted here. - Bayard Cutting Arboretum - 440 Montauk Hwy, Great River, NY 11739
A 691-acre property overlooking the Connetquot River, the Bayard Cutting Arboretum was home to the wealthy Cutting Family until it was given to the Long Island State Park Commission in 1936. The mansion and luxurious garden and grounds are now open for public enjoyment of its unique architecture and Olmsted-designed landscape.
Contact us today to learn more about life on Long Island. Your dream home might be waiting for you in Nassau or Suffolk County, and our real estate agents are here to help you find it.