Brandywine Wildflower and Native Plant Gardens
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The Brandywine Wildflower and Native Plant Gardens are gardens at the Brandywine River Museum
, located on U.S. Route 1 beside the Brandywine Creek in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.
The gardens were established in 1974 to a design by F. M. Mooberry. In 1979 Lady Bird Johnson
dedicated the gardens to Ford B. Draper and Henry A. Thouron for their contributions to the Brandywine Conservancy.
The gardens include wildflowers, trees, and shrubs set within landscaped woodlands, wetland, flood plain, and meadow.
Brandywine River Museum
The Brandywine River Museum is a museum of regional and American art located on U.S. Route 1 in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania on the banks of the Brandywine River. The museum showcases the art of Andrew Wyeth a major American realist painter, and his family: his father, N.C...
, located on U.S. Route 1 beside the Brandywine Creek in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.
The gardens were established in 1974 to a design by F. M. Mooberry. In 1979 Lady Bird Johnson
Lady Bird Johnson
Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Taylor Johnson was First Lady of the United States from 1963 to 1969 during the presidency of her husband Lyndon B. Johnson. Throughout her life, she was an advocate for beautification of the nation's cities and highways and conservation of natural resources and made that...
dedicated the gardens to Ford B. Draper and Henry A. Thouron for their contributions to the Brandywine Conservancy.
The gardens include wildflowers, trees, and shrubs set within landscaped woodlands, wetland, flood plain, and meadow.