A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. — Gertrude Jekyll
1. Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival
This park is famous for the annual Flower and Garden Festival giving an opportunity for plant lovers to explore their creatively crafted topiaries.
1. Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival
The plant beds and themed living garden sculptures shaped like world-famous Disney characters is one of the tourist attraction throughout the year.
2. Nehrling Gardens
Known to be Florida's first experimental botanical gardens, this Nehrling Gardens is the former home of famous horticulturalist Henry Nehrling.
The tropical and subtropical plants, variety of plants accommodated in a small space of 40-acre plot makes this a popular tourist destination for nature lovers.
3. Central Park Rose Garden
A wonderful rose garden located along the southern border of Central Park in Winter Park.
Includes an iconic peacock fountain and a wide range of beautiful rose bushes that were donated by a couple in the neighborhood. Great picnic place to spend a day.
4. Vizcaya Museum & Gardens
Located in a 50-acre estate, this garden features a formal Italian- and French-style garden inspired by landscape design. This garden has been surrounded by beautiful maze garden.
Plan a visit to the walled Secret Garden and the Theater Garden, to view the glorious architectural structures and antique sculptures.
5. Mead Botanical Garden
This architectural Botanical Garden includes several programs, horticulture and gardening classes, several flowering gardens, tranquil pavilions, and wildlife habitats.
One can enjoy the guided bird-watching tours and herb walks open daily for free from sunrise to sunset.
6. Harry P Leu Gardens
A beautiful 50-acre garden, donated to the City of Orlando by Mr. Harry P. Leu and his wife, features a large collection of tropical and temperate-zone plants.
This includes the azaleas, camellias, bromeliads and philodendrons as well as palms, cycads, and 200-year-old oak trees. Must see tourist garden of all times.
7. Bok Tower Gardens
A 200-acre contemplative garden located north of Lake Wales, Florida, United States, includes a tall Singing Tower with its carillon bells, Pine Ridge Trail, Pinewood Estate, bird sanctuary.
One can view the variety of ferns, palms, oaks, pines, and wetland plants. Don't miss a chance to view the Singing Tower which is the centerpiece of the gardens.
8. Albin Polasek Museum
Known for the wide array of freestanding clay and stone sculptures made by Albin Polasek set among native and subtropical plants, this small three-acre garden is a well known tourist attraction.
This garden, which overlooks scenic outdoor oasis Lake Osceola since 1949 is also surrounded with the historic-home-turned-museum, popularly known as the “living museum”.
9. Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens
Around over a 100 year old garden, still remaining largely intact, this riverfront garden has sustained significant damage from Hurricane Irma in 2017.
This historic records include the plant logs, photos, and invoices to preserve the historic character of the garden. Don't miss a chance to visit the Cummer's collection of marble ornaments.
10. Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
Lush tropical foliage on the grounds of the former home of Marie and William Selby, this botanical garden is best known for its preservation of epiphytes.
Its collection includes an epiphyte garden, complete with a waterfall and koi pond; a fern garden; a bamboo garden and grove of banyan trees.
11. McKee Botanical Garden
This Botanical garden consists of tropical plants including the largest collections of waterlilies in Florida.
Popular for restoring the historic buildings on the site, also includes the Hall of Giants and the Spanish Kitchen. Make a point to take your children to the Children's Garden and the Bamboo Pavilion.
12. Pan's Garden
This garden is famous for promoting the growth of native Florida plants and the wildlife they support.
One can find different species in the garden, which are incorporated into upland and wetland, thoughtfully designed to build upon the relationship within themselves.