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Center House Entry Garden

Designed by a team of landscape architecture students from the University of Tennessee, this garden has a contemporary sensibility. The plant selection and naturalistic layout framing a fountain and fire feature evoke a feeling of serenity and simplicity.

Carol Tatkon Entry Garden

Carol Tatkon Entry Garden

A mixed-border garden of spring bulbs, annuals and perennials that provide a riot of color in summer. Shrubs and trees add year-round structure and interest. Designed by Cudnohufsky Associates, 2002.

Ash tree on the Rock

Ash-on-the-Rock

Long ago, a tiny green ash seed germinated in a crack in this boulder. Amazingly, its roots were able to find sufficient nutrients and water to grow into a mature shade tree.

Arboretum/Pinetum

This area of the Garden features a diverse selection of native and exotic trees, including American beech, copper beech, honey locust, little-leaf linden, Ohio buckeye, downy hawthorn, and yellowwood.

 

Williams Family Amphitheater

Providing a charming and mysterious outdoor event space for children’s programming, performances, presentations, and weddings, the Amphitheater was created out of locally quarried marble salvaged from an old stone wall. Built by Ingersoll Land Care, 2023.

Unborn Sun: The Paintings of John Gordon Gauld

A New York City-based artist, John Gordon Gauld presented "Unborn Sun" from Dec. 14, 2019, through Feb. 8, 2020. His compositions depict assemblages that seem unintentional at first. But with sustained attention, they reveal a myriad of calculated, symbolic associations.

The Shape of Color: Selected Works from Cynthia Wick

When Cynthia Wick moved to the Berkshires from Los Angeles in 2009, she brought the luminous California color and light with her. Berkshire Botanical Garden presented her exhibition "The Shape of Color" from Oct. 19 through Dec. 2, 2019. 

Shimmering Flowers

"Shimmering Flowers," Nancy Lorenz’s lacquer and bronze landscapes, exhibited in the Center House Leonhardt Galleries from June 1, through Oct. 1, 2019.

Nature Narratives: The Botanical Art of Carol Ann Morley

Carol Ann Morley's retrospective collection, presented in colored pencil, pen and ink, graphite, carbon dust and pastel, filled the Leonhardt Galleries from April 6 through May 27, 2019.

Plant Shadows: Cyanotypes by Joan Dix Blair

Joan Dix Blair explored print making through cyanotypes — objects arranged on light-sensitive paper and exposed to UV light or sunshine, to produce images — in her exhibition, which ran from Dec. 15, 2018 through March 2, 2019.

Ecophilia

The exhibition, curated by Sue Muskat and Phil Knoll, included some of the brightest talents working in the field of nature. "Ecophilia" exhibited from Oct. 13 through Nov. 22, 2018.

Ellsworth Kelly: Plant Lithographs

He was a shy, art-smitten, bird-watching child from Newburgh, N.Y. He would become a famed abstract artist. In 2018, Ellsworth Kelly's iconic "Plant Lithographs" became the first major exhibition in the Garden's Center House Leonhardt Galleries.

Beautiful Strangers: Artists Discover the Garden

Curated by James Salomon, the exhibition featured a collection of stunning installations by 10 contemporary artists. The exhibition ran in 2018.

Anastasia Traina’s Fairytale Botanical World

Berkshire Botanical Garden's first gallery show of 2018 was “Anastasia Traina’s Fairytale Botanical World,” an exhibition of botanical drawings, fairies and inspirational ephemera

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