Garden guide 2024: 9 beautiful plant places in the Lancaster County region (and some are free)

We’ve created this handy flow chart to help you enjoy gardens in and around Lancaster County. Whenever you can’t decide where to go, check out the chart to find a new garden. There are free spots, tree spots, places to picnic, places to meditate and places to watch fireworks. Bonus: You don’t need to visit in spring. This guide is helpful through the growing season. Lancaster’s public rose garden grew from World War II-era victory gardens. After the war, the man who organized the edible garde

Lancaster's biggest arboretum has 1,200 trees, 2 state champions and is free [photos, video]

With nearly 1,200 trees from more than 120 species, Franklin & Marshall College’s campus is an arboretum — and it’s not just for students. Many of the trees on campus have history going back generations. Two are big enough to be state champions. No matter the size or story, each tree does the heavy lifting of capturing carbon. Many of the trees have labels and some specimens have QR codes which lead to more information online. “Because we are an arboretum and we’re a place of education, we li
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