Flowers for Isabella

On view at the Gardner Museum’s Fenway Gallery June 26 - September 21, 2025

Join us this summer to dig into the roots of Isabella Stewart Gardner’s passion for plants. Both an avid gardener and a trailblazing curator, Isabella relished in her “deliriously glorious” garden at Green Hill—her estate in Brookline, Massachusetts—before she constructed her Museum. A site of respite and a testing ground for innovation, it was there that Isabella first cultivated the varieties that would fill the Museum Courtyard, honed her curatorial vision, and furthered her conviction that art and nature enliven one another. Isabella’s horticultural creativity is captured on the canvases of paintings on view throughout the Gardner Museum today.

From jewelry and homeware to confections and books, our exhibition collection features unique gifts inspired by Isabella's lifelong love of flora and fauna.

Please note that Flowers for Isabella is no longer on view. Yu-Wen Wu: Reigning Beauty is currently viewable on the Anne H. Fitzpatrick Façade outside of the Museum through October 14th.