Brookside Gardens at Wheaton Regional Park

Brookside Gardens is a 50-acre award winning garden located within Wheaton Regional Park in Wheaton, Maryland. The gardens include a variety of horticultural displays including an aquatic garden, azalea garden, butterfly garden, rose garden, children's garden, formal garden, fragrance garden, Japanese style garden and trial garden. Brookside Gardens is a Montgomery County Park operated and maintained by the Maryland-National Capital Park & Planning Commission.

Indoor facilities include two glass-covered conservatories that display a large tropical plant collection and special exhibits that rotate throughout the year. The Visitors Center has a horticultural reference library and a gift shop.

Brookside Gardens offers a variety of educational programs for adults and children. Adult programs include lectures, guided walks, bus trips, and workshops. Children’s programs include story times, hands-on activities, educational games, classes and summer camps. A schedule of classes is published twice a year.

Brookside Nature Center is located within walking distance to the gardens. The nature center provides additional hands-on activities for children.

Brookside Gardens also offers a beautiful setting for weddings, private receptions and corporate retreats. From April through October, groups as large as 250 can enjoy the colorful gardens and the conservatories can be rented for private events throughout the year.

Special Seasonal Events at Brookside Gardens

Each Christmas season visitors enjoy the Garden of Lights at Brookside Gardens, an illuminated outdoor winter garden walk that includes a whimsical monster, an enchanting persimmon tree, a walk through kaleidoscope caterpillar, and more. There is an admission fee of $15 per car.

May through September, visitors marvel over “Wings of Fancy,” the live butterfly exhibit where butterflies fly free in the south conservatory. Admission is $5 per adult and $4 for children ages 3-12. (age 3 and under are free) Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Additional events are scheduled throughout the year. See the calendar.

Address

Wheaton Regional Park
1800 Glenallan Ave.
Wheaton Maryland
(301) 962-1400

Brookside Gardens Hours

The grounds of are open every day of the year from sunrise to sunset.

Conservatories: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Open Thanksgiving and Jan. 1)

Visitors Center: 9am to 5pm (Closed Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and Presidents’ Day)

Gift Shop: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and 12 to 4 p.m. on Sundays. During the month of February, the gift shop is closed Monday – Thursday. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday & Saturday and 12 to 4 p.m. on Sunday.

Library: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday, and during the Master Gardeners Plant Clinic hours. (Closed holidays)

Master Gardener Plant Clinics: Year round; 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, and 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday (located in the Library)

Admission

Admission is free. A fee is charged for some special programs such as the Garden of Lights and the 'Wings of Fancy' Butterfly Exhibit.

Official Web Site

www.montgomeryparks.org/brookside