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The Nation’s Only Statewide House & Garden Tour Celebrates VA 250 Historic Garden Week April 18-25, 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. 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. Showcased properties span four centuries of history and architecture, featuring everything from farmhouses and manors to urban townhomes and mid-century masterpieces. Each tour offers a captivating selection of three to five private homes and gardens, many of which are open to the public for the first time during Historic Garden Week, along with access to numerous state and national historic landmarks.
Prices range from $25 to $85 per person, with a child’s ticket (ages 5-17) available for $15 for many tours, which is new this year. Some Historic Garden Week tours are walking tours, while others require participants to drive their own cars from property to property. If shuttle transportation is needed, it is included in the tour ticket price. Stunning floral arrangements, created by talented GCV members, focus on seasonal flowers and plants native to Virginia, adding another element of inspiration and beauty to the showcased sites.
2026 Historic Garden Week Guidebook publication - complete tour details.
that require a separate ticket purchase for children ages 5 - 17
- Danville-Chatham
- Eastern Shore
- Fairfax
- Hampton-Newport News
- Harrisonburg
- Lake Gaston
- Lynchburg
- Martinsville
- Middle Peninsula
- Norfolk
- Northern Neck
- Orange
- Petersburg
- Portsmouth
- Roanoke-Salem
- Staunton
- Winchester
Combo tickets offered for 2026:
South Region: Danville-Chatham 4/23, Lake Gaston 4/25, Martinsville 4/22 & Roanoke-Salem 4/25 $75 pp
Virginia Beach, 4/22 & Norfolk, 4/23 tours $85 pp
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USD 26.88 to USD 89.82
