New Hampshire gardens display a variety of plant life and human cultivation
24 Caleb Dyer Lane / 447 Route 4A
Enfield, NH 03748
Phone: 603-632-4346
This museum features the history of the Shakers, including gardens, a walking tour, demonstrations and classes. Events are scheduled throughout the year.
Fee charged.
139 Saint Gaudens Road
Cornish, NH 03745
Phone: 603-675-2175
Open: Daily late May- late October, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
This site was once the home of one of the country’s greatest sculptors, Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The estate has a house, studio, and gardens. Fee charged.
10 Hale Hill Road
Rindge, NH 03461
Phone: 603-899-3300
Peace.
Welcome to a place of spiritual nourishment for people of all faiths. The sense of peace engendered by the tall pines that form its natural surroundings is conducive to prayer and meditation. The peaceful, garden-lined walk ways contain serene, inspirational landscapes as well as quiet spots for prayer and mediation.
Hours: May through October, open daily, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. A warm jacket is often necessary. Guided tours are available; groups are required to make reservations. Fee charged for group tours.
Route 119 West
Fitzwilliam, NH 03447
Phone: 603-532-8862
Visitors exploring the trails are often serenaded by song birds which live in the grove
Rhododendron State Park is named after the 16-acre grove of Rhododendron Maximum. A 0.6-mile long universally accessible trail encircles the grove allowing visitors to observe the fragrant blossoms in mid-July. A wildflower trail winds through the forest adjacent to the grove.
Hours: Early May to mid-June, weekends only, daylight hours; mid-June to Labor Day, daily, daylight hours.
10 Willow Avenue
North Hampton, NH 03862
Phone: 603-964-5414
Designed in the Colonial Revival style on a two -acre plot, these gardens bloom throughout the season, from an extensive tulip display in early May, followed by the Japanese garden and other late spring flowering shrubs, through the 2,000 rose bushes that bloom through October.
Hours: Mid-May through mid-October, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
45 Elwyn Road
Portsmouth, NH 03801
Phone: 603-431-6774
The center consists of 182 acres of field, forest, and salt marsh, several buildings, and the annual interest income from a trust fund. It is used as a tree farm to demonstrate proper forest management, a bird and wildlife sanctuary, a garden and landscape demonstration site, and as a learning center in forestry planning, forest management, ecology, tree and plant identification, and wildlife stewardship.
