Boxerwood Nature Center and Woodland Garden is a 15-acre arboretum featuring both native and unusual plant specimens, located within a larger preserve at 963 Ross Road near Lexington in Rockbridge County, Virginia, United States in the Shenandoah Valley. Established as a private garden in 1952, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. The Arboretum contains thousands of labeled trees and shrubs, including 1,300 cultivars, with fine collections of dwarf conifers, magnolias, dogwoods, rhododendrons, azaleas and Japanese maples. Examples of its collection include: 163 varieties of Acer palmatum , Abies nebrodensis , Acer buergerianum , Acer griseum , Acer pensylvanicum , Aesculus parviflora , Aesculus pavia , Aesculus x carnea 'Briottii' , Chaemaecyparis obtusa , Chionanthus virginicus , Cladrastis kentuckea , Cryptomeria japonica , Halesia tetraptera , Ilex verticillata , Liquidunbar styraciflua 'Corky' , Malus 'Red Jade' , Picea omorika 'Pendula' , Syringa reticulata , Taxodium distichum , Taxus species , Thuja occidntalis , and Viburnum prunifolium . Boxerwood Nature Center has a PlayTrail, a nature playground designed especially for young children. Kids can run through the plant tunnels, float leaves down the mini creek, make pies in the mud kitchen, climb tiny house mountain and more. The rules include make noise, touch anything, get dirty, and have fun. There is also a Fairy Forest where children can build their own fairy structures, and a wetland walk where visitors can cross the zigzag bridge over the garden wetlands. In fall 2016, a pollinator garden was added to the gardens.
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