Because it involves working with constantly changing living objects, the designed garden may well be one of the most difficult of art forms.

The Art of the Garden tour explores the garden as art and examines the ways in which traditional art and plants are combined in a marriage that often expands the power of both partners.

Philadelphia has some of its finest examples of garden as art as well as some of the finest combinations of traditional art and the created landscape.

Highlights of the one-day tour

Fairmount Park
The largest city park in North America with one of the largest collections of public art on display

Shofuso
Japanese House and Garden in Fairmount Park and a work of art in almost every aspect of its building and grounds

Pavilion in the Trees
Environmental sculpture in Fairmount Park provides both a visual treat and a wonderful experience.

Highlights of a three-to-five day tour

Winterthur Museum & Country Estate
A landscape of exceptional beauty and the site of a premier collection of decorative arts

Longwood Gardens
Perhaps the most famous of the du Pont estates is an artistic creation in its own right.

Grounds for Sculpture
May well be the finest sculpture garden in the country, and if not, is certainly one of the finest combinations of landscape art and sculpted art.

Barnes Foundation
With its combinations of art and arboretum and school of art and school of horticulture has long recognized the interrelationships of the two art forms.

Brandywine River Museum and Conservancy
World class collection of Wyeth art, beautiful wildflower gardens, and commitment to environmental conservation

Azalea Garden at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Part of Fairmount Park and maintained in partnership with the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s Philadelphia Green program features over four acres of plantings and 150 species of azaleas and rhododendrons.

Meadowbrook Farm
Where the distinction between house and garden is blurred into a series of perfect rooms

The Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania
Beautifully designed garden rooms house a collection of contemporary sculpture.

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