COLUMBUS, Ind. – The legendary Miller House and Garden has just completed three key landscape restoration projects that will allow visitors the opportunity to experience this extraordinary place in new ways. The former home of Xenia and J. Irwin Miller is among Columbus’s most visited tourist destinations.
These three projects, which include the landscape around the pool, the north apple orchard, and the south apple orchard, bring the property back to its full glory.
In partnership with Landmark Columbus Foundation, the pool landscape was restored with 126 arborvitae trees from the 2019 Exhibition of Exhibit Columbus.
In the summer of 2021, the 42 trees in the north apple orchard, which were originally planted in the late 1950s, were replanted in the original quincunx pattern. This work was supported by a gift from the Chris and Dominee Burton Family Fund, and then in the fall of 2021 funding was secured from the Johnson, Miller, and Schumaker families to replant the 34 trees in the south apple orchard.
Tours for the Miller House and Garden are offered in partnership with the Columbus Area Visitors Center and are available Thursdays through Saturdays. Each spring over 5,000 tulips bloom across the central part of the landscape which will be enhanced by the blooms from the newly planted orchards.
