Hello Hive Garden Friends,
It has been a while since I posted in the community. I didn't plant a garden this year so I don't have fun updates. I did go to North Carolina in April and wandered around the Biltmore Gardens so that is what you get to see today!
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As we were leaving the house I got some pictures of the exterior, including a couple of gargoyles!
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Here is an estate map. The house and gardens are toward the bottom of the map. The grounds of the Biltmore are so big and include Deer Park and Antler Hill toward the top too. If you look closely you will see Chihuly at Biltmore. Yes, I went to Ashville and Biltmore to see Chihuly. I love being a Chihuly Groupie. I get to see so many different cities and gardens!
You might remember from the house tour in the Second Floor Living Hall there were two portraits- one of the building architect, Richard Morris Hunt and one of the landscape architect- Fredrick Law Olmstead.
Olmstead did an amazing job!
The mansion sits on 8,000 acres (3237 ha) and 75 acres (30 ha) are the formal gardens close to the house. The picture on the left provides a visual of the gardens.
There is an Italian Garden, a shrub garden, a spring garden, a walled garden, a rose garden, a conservatory, an azalea garden and a bass pond.
Follow me as we wander around the formal gardens.
As you walk down the stairs you come to a covered path. It is covered with wisteria. It was so beautiful.
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Here is a great picture of the house from the other side of the wisteria walk way.
Walled Garden
Originally designed for fruits and vegetables as well as flowers, this four-acre formal garden showcases the changing seasons from spring bulbs to autumn mums. The flowerbeds are designed and planted in the "bedding out" style popular in the late 1800s.
We were there in spring so saw some beautiful tulips.
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Rose Garden
The lower half of the walled garden features roses grown at the end of the nineteenth century plus modern varieties. Our collection of heirloom roses includes some of the same varieties originally purchased for the estate in 1895.
I would love to see and smell the rose garden in full blown. There were no blooms while we were there, so we went right to the conservatory.
Conservatory
At one end of the Walled Garden is the Conservatory, a grand glass-roofed building designed by Biltmore House architect Richard Morris Hunt to nurture exotic species of orchids, palms, and other tropical plants.
Let's go in.
There were so many pretty plants.
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And the gorgeous orchids
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There was also a very small desert roo...to remind me of home. :)
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Azalea Garden
This 15 acre garden contains one of the country's largest selections of native azaleas, representing a lifetime of work by Chauncey Beadle, a horticulturist who worked at the estate for 60 years and donated his extensive plant collection to Biltmore.
I really noticed azaleas when I went to DC in April 2022 and went to the National Arboretum's Azalea collection. These are beautiful plants that flower in April and color the area with pinks, purples, oranges, whites and reds. It is magical.
Here is a look at the house as we were coming back to it from the gardens. I also got another video of the wisteria walkway. It was so incredibly beautiful
Thanks for joining me on this walk around part of the Biltmore Garden's in Asheville, North Carolina.
One of my favorite places in the world! I have been there when the roses were blooming and it is amazing, thanks for good memories.
Yay, so happy to bring back some good memories for you Melinda. I would love to see the roses in bloom. I would also like to see the Biltmore at Christmas time.
I've been there 4 or 5 times, but never at Christmas. I've stayed over at the Inn and had opportunities to do a lot of exploring.
That is wonderful! Do you any posts about the visits?
I should do a post. I have tons of photos.
There is this one from 6 years ago.
https://ecency.com/wednesdaywalk/@melinda010100/the-gardens-at-biltmore-estate-e54a86711ec97
Leave it to you to take the time to arrange your pictures in a beautiful manner🥰🥰
These flowers are so so beautiful, good job my !Lady
Thank you, that is part of the fun of blogging- making the posts pretty!
My neighbor goes to North Carolina frequently and tells me how beautiful a lot of places are. But, honestly, never got around to looking at anything there.
But she was right Biltmore Gardens look amazing and I would love to visit there!
Yes and the house is incredible too. I linked it in the post. While it is expensive to get in I thought it was worth it!!
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So glad you enjoyed the look at the Biltmore gardens with me! :) Thanks!
What a beautiful place that is! It's one of our bucket list places to hopefully visit... looks like springtime is the ideal time to go. Beautiful photos, too!
Yes, spring time is great. I would like to go back at Christmas time. I hear it is decorated so beautifully. The spring flowers were so great that I am glad we went in April.
Wow impressive this garden, a natural spectacle full of vegetation and colors, it looks like a paradise out of a fairy tale 😍
What beautiful photos, thank you very much for bringing us this natural space with all those colors full of life, what a pleasure to walk around there ❤️
So glad you liked it.
Waoo, amazing job. The garden is looking like a haven on earth. The flower is in full bloom. I want to add some beauty to your post by this picture.
Thanks @ubaidkhan so many pretty flowers all over.
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This is really a very beautiful place to actually admire of I must really confess
The garden is full of beautiful flowers, the house building really amazing
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Your wisteria photos are so lovely like a painting :)
Thank you! It was my photo screen saver for months!
so dreamy <3
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It's warm and that's the advantage, the flowers and plants that are on top of the trees grow very well and all the places like this look very beautiful.
I so much love these types of gardens trust me, it has so much of beautiful flowers
You were really able to take amazing shots and you took your time to arrange them