01/03/2026
The Garden Club of Virginia’s Historic Garden Week offers a unique chance in 2026, during the nation’s 250th anniversary, to visit many properties linked to early Virginians who helped shape American history.
Historic Garden Week 2026 is set for April 18 through April 25.
✨ From Washington to Jefferson, to the indigenous peoples who initially inhabited these lands and the enslaved Africans who contributed to the construction of many of the sites open for touring, Virginia embodies its founding ideals through these individuals, making it an ideal place to learn about our country’s beginnings.
The owners of more than 120 of Virginia’s most beautiful private properties, as well as historic landmarks throughout Virginia, will open their homes for tours to help raise funds to restore and preserve the public gardens and landscapes this April. Historic Garden Week encompasses 29 tours, in addition to bonus gardens at Little Oak Spring and Morven.
🌿 The Garden Club of Virginia has completed 130 restorations across the Commonwealth, including several connected to the nation’s 250th anniversary, made possible through funding from Historic Garden Week. While other organizations were called upon to preserve the homes of Virginia’s Founding Fathers, the Garden Club of Virginia played a vital role in restoring and interpreting the landscapes and key garden features at these sites, as well as at others with ties to the early history of Virginia.🌿
Examples of public spaces where GCV projects have occurred include:
George Washington’s Mount Vernon,
Thomas Jefferson’s properties Monticello,
Point of Honor,
and Poplar Forest,
James Madison’s Montpelier,
and the Mews at St. John’s Church, located in Richmond’s Church Hill, the site of Patrick Henry’s famous call to arms.
Many of GCV’s restoration sites have connections to the nation’s beginnings and its subsequent expansion, shaping the development of Virginia and the country.
🪵 Some lesser-known sites include Burwell Morgan Mill, co-owned by Daniel Morgan, a leading general in the American Revolution, and Fincastle Church, one of the gateways to the west.
George Washington's Mount Vernon | Thomas Jefferson's Monticello | Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest | Historic Alexandria, VA | James Madison's Montpelier | St. John's Church Foundation | Burwell Morgan Mill |
