Tennessee Executive Residence Garden Tour

We take a stroll through newly renovated gardens on the grounds of the Tennessee Executive Residence. Former First Lady Crissy Haslam led the efforts to restore historic gardens, and to spotlight Tennessee agriculture with a farm to table kitchen garden.

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Post date July 18, 2019
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Plants Featured in this Clip

Iris virginica ‘Natchez Trace’

Gardener Extras

IRIS ‘Natchez Trace’ was hybridized by J. Wills and registered in 1964. It is a showy tall bearded iris with a bloom color of wine with rose red standards and brown red falls.
Over 64K daffodils bloom in the front lawn along South Curtiswood Drive during March and April. Thalia, Ice Follies and Hillstar are the varieties of Narcissus planted.
This garden was designed in a Colonial Revival style to match how a garden would have looked at the time that the Residence was built. It has 2,800 square feet of garden space.
After research found that the Wills family had a greenhouse, the original foundation was located and used as a key component of the restoration project.
To submit a field trip request, visit www.tn.gov/residence Field trip season is mid-March through mid-November.

Gardener Notes

To submit a field trip request, visit www.tn.gov/residence Field trip season is mid-March through mid-November.

Phillipe Chadwick

Phillipe Chadwick received a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from Mississippi State University in 2006. He has worked as a Landscape Architect and managed civic designs for the city of Franklin, TN. He also designed and installed annual and perennial gardens at Cheekwood Botanical Gardens. He currently owns his own landscape maintenance and floral design company.