Garden Tours

Viewing Hours

Open daily to the public: 9 a.m. – 4:45 p.m.

Garden Tours (Seasonal)

Tours are Saturdays at 11 a.m. and 12 Noon
Wednesdays (starting June 19) at 11 a.m.
Or schedule your tour today by calling 202-526-6800.

Blooming Times by Month in the Gardens

January - Generally very dormant, but on occasion there are wintering pansies, snowdrops, mahonia, red-berries on holly.

February -  Generally dormant, but on occasion: wintering pansies, snowdrops, crocus, mahonia, red-berries on holly, camellias.

March – Pansies, camellias, crocus, daffodils, flowering cherry trees.

April – Pansies, azaleas, lilies-of-the-valley, daffodils, tulips, phlox, redbugs, lilacs, forsythia, dogwoods.

May - Pansies azaleas, lilies-of-the valley, later blooming tulips, early blooming roses, irises, rhodendron, variety of summer annuals planted by contract landscaper.

June – Roses, rhodendron, lavender, day lilies, Siberian iris, variety of summer annuals by contract landscaper.

July – Roses, lavender, variety of summer annuals planted by contract landscaper.

August – Roses,lavender, variety of summer annuals planted by contract landscaper.

September - Roses, variety of summer annuals planted by contract landscaper.

October – Roses, Mexican sage, variety of summer annuals planted by contract landscaper.

November – Possibly roses, Mexican Sage.

December – Generally dormant, but on occasion winter pansies.

Garden Tours  (Seasonal)

Free tours are given during the summer months.