If you’re still calling flowers “nice,” you haven’t been to North Carolina in June. In this state, public gardens are hitting their absolute peak, turning into a full-on summer color show where every path feels like it was designed to stop you mid-step.
This is the season when everything looks turned up a notch. Petals are louder, greens are richer, and even the air seems a little more alive.
From carefully curated historic estates to sprawling botanical gardens bursting with native blooms, each space is showing off in its own way…