Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden
— a glass dome over a year of weather.
Not only on a wall.
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“A fifty-acre garden on the north edge of Richmond, built from the country estate of the tobacco magnate Lewis Ginter and his niece Grace Arents. The Conservatory's central dome rises over palms and orchids and holds the garden's color through the gray Virginia winters. Outside, the Rose Garden, the Asian Valley, and the Children's Garden run down toward Lake Sydnor. The light through the dome at four o'clock in February is its own season.
The place, in three passes.
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden covers about 50 acres on the north side of Richmond, in Henrico County. The land belonged to Lewis Ginter, a Richmond businessman who built the Jefferson Hotel and the American Tobacco Company. After his death in 1897, his niece Grace Arents inherited the property and ran it as a working farm and children's home until her death in 1926. The modern garden opened to the public in 1984 and has been ranked among the top public gardens in North America by USA Today readers' choice polls.
The garden runs a clear calendar. A Million Blooms opens the spring, with tulips and azaleas through April. The Rose Garden peaks in May and again in October. Summer brings the butterfly house and the children's water play. Late November through early January, Dominion Energy GardenFest of Lights threads more than half a million LED lights through the trees and the dome, drawing the garden's largest annual crowds. The Conservatory is the year-round anchor, holding tropical plants through every Virginia winter.
The garden is open daily nine to five with extended evening hours during GardenFest of Lights. Admission is timed; tickets are sold online and at the gate. The grounds include the central Conservatory, the Rose Garden, an Asian Valley, a Children's Garden built around a treehouse and a CSX-themed train layout, and a half-mile loop around Lake Sydnor. A café in the Robins Visitors Center serves lunch. Parking is free. The garden sits at 1800 Lakeside Avenue, about ten minutes north of downtown Richmond.
