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Arboretums
As they prospered, Philadelphia families built country homes where they pursued their interest in plants and established extensive gardens. In the 19th century, the Morris siblings built a home for art and plants collected on world travels, which became the Morris Arboretum.
Nearby, the Cope family hired the designer of the Capitol grounds in Washington, D.C., to beautify their home with English landscape style gardens, which became the Awbury Arboretum.
More recently, 20th century businessmen Adolph Rosengarten, Sr. and Dr. Albert Barnes built suburban homes, Chanticleer and the Barnes Arboretum, respectively, that are contemporary garden showcases.
Today, public enthusiasm and support for gardens is everywhere evident in the Philadelphia area. Numerous college campuses, such as Haverford, Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore, are the sites of arboretums.
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Tyler Arboretum
A 650-acre arboretum featuring 20 miles of trails, educational programs and history
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Longwood Gardens
One of the world’s premier horticultural display gardens
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Awbury Arboretum
A wee bit of England transplanted to Germantown
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Bartram's Garden
America’s oldest living botanic garden, a 45-acre oasis of quiet fields and modest 18th-century farm buildings
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Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve
A natural habitat for Pennsylvania’s native plants
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Camden Children’s Garden
A special place for the young and the young at heart
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Chanticleer
An exciting new pleasure garden combines art with nature on the grounds of a country estate
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Morris Arboretum
A romantic Victorian landscape garden
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Haverford College Arboretum
A pastoral campus that nurtures the mind and spirit
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Jenkins Arboretum
A hardwood forest abloom with rhododendrons and azaleas
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Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College
A garden of ideas, with more than 4,000 kinds of ornamental trees and plants on the Swarthmore College campus.
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Welkinweir
Where sky meets water in rural Chester County
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