Illinois Gardens
Vance Park
Opposite the art center and adjcent to City Hall, Vance Park is an extensively landscaped sunken garden featuring a serpentine brick wall from Thomas Jefferson's design at Charlottesville and lions'
Shakespeare Garden
A gift of the garden club of Evanston to the community, the Shakespeare Garden, tucked away on the Northwestern University Campus, is celebrating its 80th year of existence. Planted by the cub in 1920
Merrick Rose Garden
The Merrick Rose Garden is a public park exhibiting 100 varieties of roses with an histoic Centennial Fountain as the focal point.
Batavia Riverwalk
The Batavia Riverwalk is a 32
Fabyan Japanese Garden
Designed in 1914
Timber Ridge Gardens
Meander through perennial nursery and 15 acres of display gardens. 800 hosta varieties, 2500 perennial, grass, tree and shrub varieties.
Long's Garden
Walk-through gardens, many 15-20 years old. Nursery selling 170 different ornamental grasses, trees, and shrubs.
Linmar Gardens
Linmar Gardens is a 3 1/2
Rock River Valley Self Help Enterprises, Inc. Happy Trails
Happy Trails is situated on 5 acres with walking paths, water gardens, a green house, 5
Weber House and Garden
Story book house in a secret garden. Candlelit 18
Anderson Japanese Gardens
Rockford's 12-acre, "pond-strolling"
Jane Addams International Peace Garden
Jane Addams International Peace Garden honors Rockford College alumna and Nobel laureate, Jane Addams. Located at Fisher Chapel/
Sinnissippi Gardens, Greenhouse, Lagoon & Recreation Trail
A take-off point for the 10-mile Rock River Recreation Path, this riverside park features annual gardens, a floral clock planted each year with 1000's of colorful annuals, a lagoon &
Graham-Ginestra House Founder's Garden
Delightful English garden on the grounds of an 1857
Gillin Cottage Gardens
Gillin Cottage Gardens is nestled on a 100