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Updated on June 29, 2016

Hershey Gardens

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Located in Hershey, Pennsylvania, Hershey Gardens has 23 acres of gardens including a rose garden, herb garden, ornamental grasses, Japanese garden and more. My favorite, of course, was the butterfly house and perennial garden.

Garden Art

Sprinkled throughout the walkways were wind chimes and other garden art that added to the experience. I took a photo of some of my favorites and those that I thought might be easy to make.

Bamboo Wind Chime
Bamboo Wind Chime
Metal Wind Chime
Metal Wind Chime
Metal Tree

Container Gardens

The bath tub container was a unique way to use discarded household objects to repurpose them for your garden. I also liked the container made from an old tree trunk. This is a great way to utilize a stump in your yard and make it beautiful while you wait for it to decompose.  Containers are a great way to add texture and height variety in shady parts of your garden, especially when the soil may be too full of roots to plant directly in the soil.

Unique Bathtub Container
Unique Bathtub Container
Shade Plant Container
Shade Plant Container
Tree Trunk Container

Garden Structures

There were some nice structures to support flowering plants or vines in the garden.

Trellis
Arbor of Logs
Arbor of Logs
Arbor of Logs
Arbor of Logs

Ground Cover

I’m always looking for good uses of ground cover and ideas. I really liked rocks interspersed in the variegated liriope.

Dead Nettle
Dead Nettle
Liriope with Stones
Liriope

Butterfly House

Along with the beauty of the butterflies, these gardens provide great examples of plants we can use in our gardens to attract butterflies. Echinacea, pentas, brown-eyed Susans, butterfly bushes, lantanas, and more brought out the color in this garden.

Echinacea
Echinacea (Purple Coneflower)
Lantana
Lantana
Butterfly Bush
Butterfly Bush
Hershey Gardens Butterfly House
Hershey Gardens Butterfly House
Lantana
Lantana
Pentas
Pentas
Phlox
Phlox
Brown-eyed Susans
Brown-eyed Susans
Zinnias
Zinnias

Other Photos of Hershey Gardens

Perennial Garden
Lungwort
Daylilies
Daylilies
Nice use of shade plants around the base of this tree
Nice use of shade plants around the base of this tree
Brown Eyed Susans
Brown Eyed Susans
Variegated Canna
Variegated Canna
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