Welcome to the Hamilton Gardens. Hamilton Gardens is not a traditional botanic garden. We like to say, that while botanic gardens are collections of plants, Hamilton Gardens is a collection of gardens. So we have taken lots of different kinds of garden designs and collected them together in one place. We have organized those gardens into five collections: Paradise Garden collection, The Productive Garden collection, Fantasy garden collection, Cultivar Garden collection and a landscape garden collection. Hamilton Gardens itself started in 1964 and was developed in kind of a hodgepodge sort of way until the 1980s when a new overall plan was laid out.