The Brandywine Wildflower and Native Plant Gardens are gardens at the

Brandywine River Museum The Brandywine Museum of Art is a museum of regional and American art located on U.S. Route 1 in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania on the banks of the Brandywine Creek. The museum showcases the work of Andrew Wyeth, a major American realist painter, an ...

, located on U.S. Route 1 beside the Brandywine Creek in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. The gardens were established in 1974 to a design by F. M. Mooberry. In 1979

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dedicated the gardens to Ford B. Draper and Henry A. Thouron for their contributions to the Brandywine Conservancy. The gardens include wildflowers, trees, and shrubs set within landscaped

woodland A woodland () is, in the broad sense, land covered with trees, or in a narrow sense, synonymous with wood (or in the U.S., the ''plurale tantum'' woods), a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade (se ...

s, wetland, flood plain, and

meadow A meadow ( ) is an open habitat, or field, vegetated by grasses, herbs, and other non- woody plants. Trees or shrubs may sparsely populate meadows, as long as these areas maintain an open character. Meadows may be naturally occurring or arti ...

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Brandywine Wildflower and Native Plant Gardens
Botanical gardens in Pennsylvania Parks in Delaware County, Pennsylvania Chadds Ford Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania 1974 establishments in Pennsylvania {{US-garden-stub

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