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Monticello's gardens served as a botanical showpiece, a source of food, and an experimental laboratory of ornamental and useful plants from around the world.
Monticello was a botanical laboratory of ornamental and useful plants from around the world.
Jefferson grew 330 vegetable varieties on Monticello's 1,000-foot-long garden terrace.
See what's going on in Monticello's gardens and learn about some the fascinating -- and sometimes exotic -- plants Jefferson sought to cultivate at his mountaintop home.
A GIS database of the trees, woody shrubs, and perennial plants at Monticello.
Introduction to Monticello's Gardens
The Vegetable Garden at Monticello
8,000 Bulbs! Late Fall Planting for a Beautiful Spring at Monticello
Tulips at Monticello
Thomas Jefferson's Garden Book turns 250!
Sensitive Plant is, well, sensitive
Monticello's gardens were a botanic showpiece, a source of food, and an experimental laboratory of ornamental and useful plants from around the world.
