Brookside Gardens

History

Features

• Aquatic Garden – water-loving plants with two ponds and gazebo.
• Azalea Garden – over 300 varieties of azaleas represented by 2,000 plants. Also rhododendrons, witchhazels, hollies, Japanese andromeda, sweet-box, skimmia, and shade-tolerant perennials.
• Butterfly Garden – Seasonal in summer only. Admission fee.
• Children's “School's Outside” Garden
• Conservatories – seasonal displays and special exhibits. The surrounding garden contains a collection of unusual conifers and groundcovers.
• Dry Stone Sphere—A stacked stone sculpture, by stone artist Devin Devine.
• Fragrance Garden
• Gude Garden – a Japanese-style landscape with bamboo, beech, unusual conifers, dogwood, and groundcovers, as well as an island teahouse overlooking the ponds.
• Maple Terrace – raised beds within a planting of ‘Suminagashi’ Japanese maples.
• a Japanese teahouse overlooking a pond stocked with koi.
• Perennial Garden – wisterias, roses, Jasmine stephanense, buddleia, and Prunus × cistena, allium, geranium, sedum, panicum, lespedeza, calamagrostis, anemones, asters, acanthus, and agastache, etc.
• Reflection Terrace – a memorial to the ten individuals killed in the October 2002 Washington D.C. area sniper attacks.
• Rock Garden – spring flowering bulbs with grasses and conifers.
• Rose Garden – all types of roses, including hybrid tea, rugosa hybrids, grandiflora, English, miniature, floribunda, shrub, groundcover, polyantha, climber, Gallica, hybrid musk, and the garden rose.
• Trial Garden – spring flowering bulbs, then summer displays of new and unusual plant varieties.
• Woodland Walk – forested wetland with bald cypress, tulip poplar, spicebush, and groundcover of mayapple, fern, and skunk cabbage. A native plant garden includes approximately 124 species and cultivars of Maryland native plants.
• Yew Garden – a garden room within yew hedges.

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