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Boxerwood Gardens is a arboretum featuring both native and unusual plant specimens, located within a larger preserve at 963 Ross Road, Lexington, Virginia, USA in the Shenandoah Valley.〔(Boxerwood web site )〕 Established as a private garden in 1952, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. The Arboretum contains thousands of labeled trees and shrubs, including 1,300 cultivars, with fine collections of dwarf conifers, magnolias, dogwoods, rhododendrons, azaleas and Japanese maples. Examples of its collection include: 163 varieties of ''Acer palmatum'' (Japanese Maple), ''Abies nebrodensis'' (Sicilian Fir), ''Acer buergerianum'' (Trident maple), ''Acer griseum'' (Paperbark Maple), ''Acer pensylvanicum'' (Striped maple), ''Aesculus parviflora'' (Bottlebrush Buckeye), ''Aesculus pavia'' (Red Buckeye), ''Aesculus x carnea 'Briottii' ''(Red Horsechestnut), ''Chaemaecyparis obtusa'' (Hinoki Falsecypress), ''Chionanthus virginicus'' (White Fringetree), ''Cladrastis kentuckea'' (American Yellowwood), ''Cryptomeria japonica'' (Japanese Cedar), ''Halesia tetraptera'' (Carolina Silverbell), ''Ilex verticillata'' (Winterberry), ''Liquidunbar styraciflua 'Corky' ''(Corky Sweetgum), ''Malus 'Red Jade' ''(Red Jade Crabapple), ''Picea omorika 'Pendula (Weeping Serbian Spruce), ''Syringa reticulata'' (Japanese Tree Lilac), ''Taxodium distichum'' (Baldcypress), ''Taxus species'' (Yews), ''Thuja occidntalis'' (American Arborvitae), and ''Viburnum prunifolium'' (Blackhaw viburnum). Boxerwood Gardens has also recently opened a new PlayTrail, a nature playground designed especially for young children. Kids can run through the plant tunnels, float leaves down the mini creek, make pies in the mud kitchen, climb tiny house mountain and more! The rules include "make noise," "touch anything," "get dirty," and "have fun"! == See also == * List of botanical gardens in the United States * National Register of Historic Places listings in Rockbridge County, Virginia 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Boxerwood Gardens」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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