VISITING GARDENS COMMITTEE

The committee plans trips to educate Members in garden history and design, horticulture, and the environment.  Proceeds from these tours benefit Club sponsored activities. The committee also promotes GCA sponsored trips to Members and informs Members of the opportunity to visit the gardens of other GCA club members throughout the United States as well as the gardens of GCA international courtesy clubs.

NEW GCA TRIPS AND TOURS IN 2024

GCW trip to Newport Gardens & Flower Show, June 18-21, 2024. Explore private and public botanic gardens in Newport and Little Compton, including the exquisite Blue Garden, tour the famed Newport Flower Show, enjoy a harbor cruise, and dinner at the Harbour Court--Newport base for the storied New York Yacht Club.  Registration and deposit are requested by March 15th. Spouse or guest welcome. Space is limited; reserve yours now!

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• Check out the On The Road brochure on the GCA’s Visit landing page 

• Interest Lists for domestic trips to Oahu and Asheville & the Southern Highlands have opened 

• Registration for the Palladian Villas in the Veneto, South Tyrol, and Venice has opened Contact your Visiting Gardens Zone rep for further information.

HILLWOOD AND DUNBARTON OAKS - MAY 2022

On May 12, 2022, Club members enjoyed a day of inspiration exploring Dunbarton Oaks, designed by Beatrix Farrand and Hillwood, the home and garden of Marjorie Merriweather Post. Dumbarton Oaks is a historic estate in the Geogetown neighborhood of Washington, DC and is considered one of the great gardens of America, known by landscape designers and historians around the world.  It was the residence and garden of wealthy U.S. diplomat Robert Woods Bliss (1875–1962) and his wife Mildred Barnes Bliss (1879–1969). Opened in 1977, Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens is an immersive space where the captivating life of Marjorie Merriweather Post and the exquisitely maintained Mansion and Gardens combine to create an experience unlike any other. When art collector, businesswoman, social figure and philanthropist Marjorie Post left to the public her northwest Washington, DC estate, she endowed the country with the most comprehensive collection of Russian imperial art outside of Russia, an exquisite eighteenth-century French decorative art collection, twenty-five acres of serene landscaped gardens and natural woodlands and a pristine Georgian-style mansion displaying Post's exquisite way of life.

part of  THE GARDEN CLUB of AMERICA  since 1920