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Two terrific acres garden deserving confabulate and open to the world in Washington , DC , areHillwood Estate , Museum and GardensandDumbarton Oaks . Both charge admittance fees and are tricky to touch by public transportation , but with DC’sCar 2 Goprogram , it ’s simple .
The farthest aside from The National Mall is the Hillwood Estate , Museum and Gardens . Once owned by Marjorie Merriweather Post ( the General Foods Cereal heiress ) Hillwood ’s gardens reflect its mid - 100 heyday , Post ’s eclectic mouthful , and her interestingness in Catherine the Great . There are terrific Russian artifacts throughout the attribute and a small stately - palisade garden is its centerpiece . divide into distinct areas , there is also a lowly dacha , an Adirondack - style garden building , a Nipponese - style garden , as well as a formal rose garden . Additionally , the former Georgian mode house has been converted into a museum that houses Post ’s antiques and collection of Russian objects and artistic production . There is also a café for lunch .
Formal parterre garden .
Dumbarton Oaks , locate in Georgetown , is arguably one of the most far-famed gardens in the U.S. It is owned by Harvard University and it is open from 2 p.m. until 6 p.m. , except on Mondays and holidays . Lines are prospicient at 2 p.m. on weekend . Designed byBeatrix Farrandin 1921 , the terraced garden include schematic and informal area filled with incredible details . Many of those , including the with child enclosed Pebble Garden and the swim pool , are beautiful examples of artisanal stonework . In wintertime and former spring , the garden ’s evergreen structure and its computer architecture make it worth the sojourn . Arranged in a serial of meandering outdoor “ rooms , ” there are cutting garden , a kitchen garden , a big rose garden , an ellipse of pleached hornbeam , and others . It is potential to spend an entire daylight search Dumbarton Oaks and then wandering through Georgetown ’s adorable residential neighborhoods .
Turf steps go up to Dumbarton Oaks .
Custom stonework .
Pebblework .
Russian fountain with sixty furniture .
Front garden in Georgetown .
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