BILTMORE ESTATE Historic Gardens Tour — Ep. 246
BILTMORE ESTATE Historic Gardens Tour — Ep. 246
One of the most beautiful private gardens I had visited 10 years ago was @Biltmore Historic Gardens and Conservatory. Though we skip the conservatory in this film (but feature it on our sister channel, “Plant One On Me” @summerrayneoakes we join Bill Quade, Director of Horticulture at the Biltmore Company, to lavish us with a tour of a part of the historic gardens.
Biltmore Conservatory Tour: https://youtu.be/DqH8LPidIto
Biltmore Orchid Tour: https://youtu.be/CZfLA_dAMDY
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Oh the music. How beautiful. Thank you 🙂
Absolutely wonderful…….Thank You very much Summer and Saunder
This space doesn’t sit well with me. It is intimidating the levels of which these gardens have been developed. The pastoral garden reminds me of the oak savannas where I was born and raised around Sonoma mountain. I like that part of the design. That part doesn’t feel intimidating. As a gardener I have always been most interested in the space between the cultivated land and the wild. I like to consider this space more like a habitat buffer zone than a wall, fence, or border. I like this space to hold qualities of a membrane which purpose is to allow contact between the wild and my garden in a mutually beneficial way. I don’t like low cut lawns and I don’t like non pervious pathways. While this garden is huge, the distance between man and nature is enormous in this space. Almost removed but not quite. I think this gardener got so far from natural design he forgot who he was and where he learned his knowledge from, the old oak trees.
This also reminds me of golden gate park where I’m from. It’s a wonderful park like central park. I think the landscape designer modeled much of the space after central park here. It is impressive to say the least. Golden gate park was build over an ancient sand dune. This made it preform much like a hydroponic system allowing an unnaturally rapid growth. I’m not going to say the park is not beautiful but I wish I could see the San Francisco Bay before the park and before the city. When the miwok songs rang amounst the masses of birds and wildlife. That is natural design at its finest. A sacred place of absolute abundance. We need to be careful with our gardens. We need to make gardens to welcome peace inside and out. Not this who is the biggest and best sickness of the mind. I myself go to the confluence of a stream in the wild to find peace. This is where the good mind grows. Where nature is most abundant. Nyaweh sgeno, peace on earth and wellbeing for human kind 🙏 ♥️ ✨️
What narcissus do we have at 29:17. Part of as mixed bulb boarder. I’m interested in what looks like a white JetFire. Also at 34:23. I need this!
As gardening enthusiasts and desire to learn about history we were excited to go to the Biltmore Estate. The entrance fee was so expensive we turned it down. Not even a senior discount LOL. This was several years ago. How much is it today?
Very nice. I found you’re channel through MrMaple which I’m a fan of too. I was planning to bring some family members with me to their open house Memorial Day so now I guess we’ll have to include Biltmore Historic Gardens. Thank you!
I didn’t know you could grow narcissists…….😂😂😂
Well done! I’ve visited the gardens a handful of times but not enjoyed them so much as listening to the two of you. Maybe a Part 2, 3… to cover what you didn’t have time for, and different seasons?
Just an FYI – we historical enthusiasts visit these places to see and learn how the masters created their designs. To say things are eradicated because they are ‘faux pas" is sacrilege and an insult to their overall design.
I have seen this happen at other historical gardens we went to – drove all the way there and paid to see where they trashed an heirloom rose garden for a mixed border of mostly sterile plants and hydrangeas just because they felt it was more "in style".
Faux pas is no reason to ruin an original design.
First heard of Biltmore House in 1974. Spent the week end in Ashville, NC on a business trip still a most memorable visit. Amazing place unfortunately I’ve not been able to get back so really enjoying this video.
What an excellent tour! It reminds me of Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square PA
Lovely…On my gardeners Bucket List.
48:16 I love the little easter egg of the car flying backyards dow the hill.
Wow, just wow.
Thanks!
Biltmore’s Conservatory Tour is here: https://youtu.be/DqH8LPidIto and Biltmore’s Orchid House Tour is here: https://youtu.be/CZfLA_dAMDY
We toured last September and loved the Olmsted feel that remains in the gardens and the estate grounds. Your video tour does that justice.
Your adventures with this channel remind me of a time I went very deep in Northern California near the south fork of the salmon River outside of Mount Shasta. I was staying on the land of the Menzies family. Archibald Menzies. He has his name in the Latin of many species. He knew how to pick a spot. The doug fir was named after old man menziesii. That probably the most well known tree with his name on it, but my favorite is the madrone. This tree is like a mother to me. She is so strong but so soft. No matter how hot and dry it gets she is cool to the touch. When fires bring her down her seeds germinate. The color of her limbs like blood. She is one of my favorite trees in paradise.
Such a great tour – and a great way for beginners like me to hear and see plant identification at a walking place – love it!
That urn looks like the teacup ride from Disney
Loved the Biltmore gardens when I went in like…2011/2012 I believe, but I wish that there was an option to buy tickets just for the grounds, especially since the price for even the Grounds + House has essentially become prohibitively expensive. I understand that it costs money to run the grounds but the cost of tickets feels incredibly out of touch. Although I suppose its unsurprising that the home of one of the richest families in American history continues to be a for-profit business.
Regardless, love the video, and thank you for the tour 🙂 Its wonderful to be able to revisit that experience without the massive price tag.
Thanks!
Great places you visit!!! But please let your guest talk more and you less. . . ok, thanks.
I am a gardener, not a botanist, but I love a garden tour with plant nerds! Thanks for this.
I am so happy I found this video. For 8 years I lived two hours away from Biltmore Estates. We would go 1 or 2 times a month. I loved the gardens and the house tours, but mostly the gardens.
Sometimes i feel bad for people You visit -You do not let people talk🤔Seems You know more than Yours guest-sorry!
Beautiful gardens 💚💚
Awesome episode, wish you would’ve turned Saunder lose with his drone to film more of that place..im sure it would’ve been gold! Lol
Thanks for inviting us along 😊
I think this was so lovely. It’s always a pleasure to watch interviews where the guest is on the same wavelength as the interviewer. I swear, when you Summer used your Bird Voice in the end while discussing the shy fowl island, I could hear him start doing the same thing. You almost got him :D!
Thanks for the incredible tour!
What are the odds. I just learned about this place through an Instagram ad an hour ago and now this video shows up 😂…….. 🤔.
In any case, I look forward to this video 👍🏻
top best! thank you🙏
Love that place. Can’t recall but do u know what kind of grass they use to outline the formal beds?
I live in Greenville about an hour south of the Biltmore. I have only been one time to visit but I think I need to plan on going back asap. I have learned so much about plants and agriculture since I went the first time. I think that I will appreciate everything 1,000x more now!!! ❤
Really really nice tour video. loved the gardens and the discussion.
I’m gonna drop this little seed of spiritual wisdom to consider as gardeners and restoration ecologists. It’s an idea I’ve been toying with. There are 3 symbolic trees in the garden of Eden, not 2, that is a lie. We all know the apple tree. Breed into oblivion, the genetic bank is massive. We didn’t get in trouble for eating the apple and we didn’t get cast out of paradise. Thats another lie. We walked away. We left the tree of life behind. The old growth, the hard woods. The oak tree. They are still here for us if we listen to the trees. It’s just that the journey home is so far its hard to see where we are even going. This is called forest succession in ecology. We know that the disturbed grasslands will go back to the old growth forest in time. A long time. To lend some consultation on the journey home from a long war with ourselves we have the great tree of peace. The pines. The soft woods. They are here to give life sanctuary. To protect and nurture life in this transition from young into old. We are one and we are forever. We are the salmon and we are the oaks. we are and I am, the I and I. The eye of ra and the eye of horus. The sun and the moon and from the earth to the sky. That is divine design at its finest. It is our inheritance. Be well.
I love how you were able to laugh with this man about the pronunciation of a dead language. That’s an effective way of communication. You were both correct. You are doing good things with this channel. Big ups
Asheville is in the Appalachian Mountains.
very interesting and helpful.
Awesome! Thanks a million!!!