The Garden Chronicles

Experts share a garden once belonging to Rachel Lambert Mellon in Virginia.

Blithewold is an Arts and Crafts garden on Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay.

An elaborate 13.5-acre stroll garden in Greenwich, Conn., features a vast array of garden rooms, including a spectacular vegetable garden, a limonaia (greenhouse for lemons), unique statuary and rare plant species.

A private garden curated in the span of two decades by Gioia Brown at her historic 1690s home in Little Compton, R.I.; it features a variety of tranquil spaces, including border, rock, bog and woodland gardens.

A 60-acre estate designed by H.F. du Pont in collaboration with female landscape pioneer Marian Cruger Coffin; mass plantings of native and exotic plants, ancient trees and formal elements make up a landscape of serene vistas.

Exploring historic gardens in Philadelphia, Pa., that were inspired by late 1800s designs and plants from Europe and Asia; highlights include a subterranean Victorian fernery and some of the oldest trees in cultivation in North America.