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This early-June trip in 2023 took us to see some of North Carolina's best gardens, including a 26-acre semi-public home garden (Arborcrest), two other home gardens, and four public gardens (Duke, Raulston, North Carolina Botanical Garden, and Juniper Level).

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This 12-day trip in spring 2023 took us into Lisbon, Portugal, and then to Portugal's beautiful islands of San Miguel and Madeira.

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This October 2022 Lowee's Group Tours trip took us to Nashville, St. Louis, Louisville, and Columbus.

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These 20 photos are from the 2022 Philadelphia Flower Show, held outside in June at FDR Park.

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This tour of south-central Pennsylvania home gardens took place in June 2022. Stops included Bill and Jane Allis' The Bower native-plant and sculpture gardens in Perry County, Jill and John Hudock's gardens in Shippensburg, Karl Mattson's gardens next to the Gettysburg Battlefield, and Dorothy and Alan Gesford's gardens in Camp Hill.

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These 24 photos come from the once-every-decade Dutch Floriade Expo in May of 2022.

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These 25 photos are from a tour to The Netherlands' famous Keukenhof bulb garden in early May of 2022.

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I've seen thousands of public and private gardens in my 30 years as a garden writer. These are 50 of the most memorable particular garden settings. I could've easily picked more...

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The sequel to my 50 favorite American garden settings of all-time is this one, which focuses on some of the most impressive international gardens I've ever seen.

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These 50 shots show the plants, gardens, desert landscape, and mountain scenery from our December 2019 trip to Arizona.

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These photos are from the June 2019 trip to Chicago-area gardens, plus Notre Dame. Purdue's Gabis Arboretum, Fort Wayne's Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory and more.

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These 50 photos are from our May 2019 trip to London's Chelsea Flower Show and great gardens of England.

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These photos are from our group tour in the late fall of 2018 to and around San Antonio, Texas.

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This is a collection of shots from George and Sue's Hampden Twp. yard as they left it before moving in the fall of 2018.

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This collection shows the amazing scenery from an August 2018 trip to Denmark, Sweden and Norway.

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Disney's Epcot theme park is a botanic garden in disguise. It's especially impressive during the annual three-month Epcot Flower and Garden Festival. These 43 photos are from the 2018 festival.

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These 48 photos are from our March 2018 Lowee's tour to New Orleans and gardens of the Deep South.

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These 25 shots are from the 2018 Philadelphia Flower Show, which was themed "Wonders of Water."

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Who knew a desert garden could look so amazing? These photos are from the Desert Garden at the Huntington Library and Gardens in San Marino, Calif. -- in early January, no less.

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These shots are from the 2017-18 New Year's tour to Los Angeles, the Pasadena Rose Parade. San Diego and gardens of southern California.

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Epcot's Land pavilion has a cool display of what hydroponics can do -- i.e. grow plants inside in a variety of ways without soil.

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These are shots from the 11-day trip to Maine and the Canadian Maritimes (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island) in August of 2017.

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These are shots both from our 2017 local garden tour and the June 2017 Cumberland County Master Gardener Garden Tour... plus one more excellent local garden for good measure.

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Our Lowee's/Collette tour group saw the stunning scenery of Yosemite National Park, Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada Mountains, plus San Francisco, the growing fields in the Salinas Valley, Filoli and several other gardens, and lots of wineries in the Sonoma and Napa valleys during our May 2017 trip.

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Our "big trip" of 2016 took us to great gardens (and amazing sights) in and around Paris in September.

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Get a feel for the blend of creativity, thrift and quirkiness that make up America's biggest garden tour.

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These are pictures of the five Harrisburg-area gardens we toured in our Lowee's Home-Grown Gardens II tour June 30 and July 1, 2016.

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These pictures are from the five superb home gardens that were the stops on our first tour of local, central-Pennsylvania gardens.

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A group of 39 winter-weary garden-gawkers went on this 8-day February 2016 tour of central-Florida gardens. Heading down there yourself? Check out the 3-bedroom, pool-equipped villa in a gated community that our daughter, Erin, rents just 15 minutes from the Disney gates at http://www.brunellovilla.com.

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I was pleasantly surprised and very impressed with the plantings on a June 2015 trip to the New Jersey Grounds for Sculpture near Princeton.

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These shots are from a May 2015 trip to great gardens, historic villas and the stunning scenery of the lakes region of northern Italy.

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These photos are from a March 2015 trip to great gardens of South Carolina, including Middleton Place, Magnolia Plantation, the Charleston Home and Garden Tour and Pearl Fryar's amazing 2-acre home topiary garden.

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Penn State opened its 1-acre Childhood's Gate Children's Garden in July, 2014, at its main-campus H.O. Botanic Gardens.

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This is a young garden along mid-coast Maine, but it's very high quality... potentially one of the world's best by the time it's completed. These shots are from a June 2014 visit.

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Here's a look at some of the lush and beautiful tropical gardens I saw on a January trip to central Florida. It spans gardens from the Gulf to Atlantic coasts with a few in between.

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These photos are from the group tour I led to Scotland and northern England in July 2013.

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Here\'s a look at the June 2013 trip to great gardens of Ohio (mostly Columbus area) with a stop at Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh on the way home.

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Check out the bulbs, gardens and some cool Dutchy attractions we saw on our April 2012 trip to the Netherlands.

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Lewis Ginter is in the top 10 of George\'s favorite public gardens in the U.S. It has many themed gardens, a beautiful conservatory and an amazing children\'s garden.

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This 2013 collection of giant plant sculptures in Montreal Botanical Garden is the most amazing horticultural display I've ever seen. Incredible.

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Chanticleer is another favorite. You will understand why when you view the photos. This gem is in Wayne, PA. A must-see for all garden lovers.

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My trip to Ireland this year brought more beautiful flowers, scenery and castles. Just when I thought it couldn\'t get any better than last year!

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Check out the photos of plants, gardens and the just plain beautiful scenery from the Caribbean cruise Sue and I took in January 2012.

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Here's a selection of shots from my Jan. 2011 trip to South Africa with a "garden safari" group from Harrisburg Area Community College.

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