Roosevelt Campobello Gardens

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's parents were among the wealthy Americans built holiday homes on Campobello Island in the late nineteenth century. FDR's summer home is one of several in the International Park: Wells-Shober Cottage, Hubbard Cottage, Prince Cottage, and Johnston Cottage. The Roosevelt 'Cottage Garden' has 'dinner plate' dahlia and begonia beds and in fact most of the plants found in the Park's gardens are annuals or perennials treated as annuals - very much in the tradition of Mixed Style Victorian gardens. To see the bedding displays, the best garden visiting months are July and August.