Historic North Carolina Garden Tour

In historic Hillsborough, North Carolina, a passionate gardener pays homage to an old landscape while making it her own

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Lots of Lush Leaves
Photo by: Van Chaplin

Enter the Tropical Garden

You enter the striking Tropical Garden through an oversize wooden arbor designed to relate new plantings to the scale of larger, existing buildings, such as the barn. One of the newer gardens at Montrose, it seems to play with light. It’s full of varied textures and defined by the foliage of yuccas, agaves, irises, gingers, and bananas.


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