Brookside Gardens
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Brookside Gardens (50 acres) are public gardens located within Wheaton Regional Park, at 1800 Glenallan Avenue, Wheaton, Maryland. The gardens are open daily without charge.
Major features of the garden are as follows:
- 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
- Children's "Fairy Folk" Garden
- Conservatories - seasonal displays and special exhibits. The surrounding garden contains a collection of unusual conifers and groundcovers.
- 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.
- Perennial Garden - wisterias, roses, Jasmine stephanense, buddleia, and Prunus x cistena, allium, geranium, sedum, panicum, lespedeza, calamagrostis, anemones, asters, acanthus, and agastache, etc.
- 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.
