Historic Garden Week

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Secret Gardens of Orange
April 18, 2026

This walking tour features five architecturally diverse homes and their gardens throughout the Marshall Heights neighborhood in the town of Orange. The gardens are well-established, featuring ancient tree-lined paths and pollinator favorites. Visitors will enjoy touring a real kit house, a secluded home and garden with an unexpected orientation, as well as a secret garden offering an awe-inspiring view. Nearby is Montpelier, home of James Madison, and one of the Garden Club of Virginia’s restoration properties.

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The Garden Club of Virginia's Historic Garden Week is the oldest and largest statewide event of its kind in the nation. Variety, history, and beauty are hallmarks of the event.
The statewide event attracts over 20,000 worldwide visitors annually. Tour proceeds support the restoration of Virginia’s historic public landscapes, the Historic Research Landscape fellowship to document historic site landscapes, and from 2016 to 2020, projects to enhance Virginia State Parks.

Dolley Madison Garden Club Tour
April 20, 2024

Highbrighton - Photo: Carla Passarello

Wander - Discover - Be Inspired

Four unique properties surrounded by the Blue Ridge Mountains, all under conservation easements were featured on this year’s tour in Greene and Madison counties – Orange County’s neighbors. Meadows, native plants, organic flower and vegetable gardens, pollinator-attractive and wildlife friendly native flowers and trees rounded out this conservation-oriented tour.