Edith J. Carrier Arboretum
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The Edith J. Carrier Arboretum is an arboretum and botanical garden on the James Madison University campus, located in Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA in the Shenandoah Valley. Its gardens include:
- Andrew Wood Memorial Garden (1994) - 92 species including lady slippers, Turk's cap lily, Dutchman's breeches, wild ginger, squirrel corn, native azaleas, laurels and rhododendrons.
- Ballard Memorial Planting (1991) - Ginkgo or Maidenhair Tree, azaleas, rhododendrons, white redbuds, Chinese dogwood and black hall tree.
- Bog Garden (1999) - pitcher plant, sundew, cranberry, Labrador tea, lambkill, and bald cypress.
- Drury Planting (1993) - forest pansy redbud, Chinese dogwood, Carolina silverbell, dolchica spirea, Japanese maple, Cherokee sunset dogwood, and dwarf barberry.
- Fern Valley - on ravine slopes, ferns including New York fern, hay-scented fern, Christmas fern, ostrich fern, and marginal shield fern.
- Heath Family Plantings - rhododendrons, azaleas, mountain laurel, Leucothoe, and fetterbush.
- Larkin Smith Rock Garden (1991) - features 7 of 15-plus endemic species to the shale barren: yellow buckwheat, white-haired leather flower, ragwort, spike moss, and hairy lipped ferns, with "near endemic" prickly pear cactus and the shining sumac.
- Mid-Atlantic Azalea Garden (1996)- azalea natives including pinxter flower, flame azalea, rose azalea, plumleaf azalea, and hybrid crosses.
- McDonald Azalea and Rhododendron Garden (1995) - more than 500 individual azaleas and rhododendrons of many varieties.
- Sinclair Garden (1996)- a variety of shrubs and perennials, including Japanese barberry, kousa dogwood, leyland cypress, cherry laurel and rhododendrons.
- Viette Perennial Garden (1992) - 18 varieties of daylilies and 8 varieties of Siberian iris, hostas, Eupatoriums and ornamental grasses.
