Best Botanical Gardens in the United States
Staying at home because of the corona virus has got me in mood. It also has given me an itch to travel, at least virtually. Once again, I have calculated my observations and here ye this blog appears. It's even in alphabetical order and there is twenty eight to be exact. I hope you enjoy. Even if it's just the pictures.
1. ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden - Albuquerque, New Mexico
2. McBryde & Allerton Gardens, National Tropical Botanical Garden - Koloa, Hawaii
3. Anderson Japanese Gardens - Rockford, Illinois
4. Atlanta Botanical Gardens - Atlanta, Georgia
5. Boston Public Garden - Boston, Massachusetts
6. Brookgreen Gardens - Georgetown County, South Carolina
7. Brooklyn Botanic Garden - Brooklyn, New York
8. Chicago Botanic Garden - Chicago, Illinois
9. The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden - Dallas, Texas
10. Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden - Gaston County, North Carolina
11. Denver Botanic Gardens - Denver, Colorado
12. Desert Botanical Garden - Phoenix, Arizona
13. Elizabeth Park Conservancy - West Hartford, Connecticut
16. Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden - Coral Gables, Florida
17. Fort Worth Botanic Garden - Fort Worth, Texas
16. Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens - Columbus, Ohio
17. Garfield Park Conservatory - Garfield Park Conservatory
18. Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden - Lakeside, Virginia
19. Longwood Gardens - Chester County, Pennsylvania
20. Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens - Fort Bragg, California
21. Missouri Botanical Garden - St. Louis, Missouri
22. New York Botanical Garden - Bronx, New York
23. Portland Japanese Garden - Washington Park, Portland, Oregon
24. San Francisco Botanical Garden - San Francisco, California
25. Sarah P. Duke Gardens - Durham, North Carolina
26. Tucson Botanical Gardens - Tucson, Arizona
27. United States Botanic Garden - Washington, D.C.
28. Washington Park Arboretum UW Botanic Gardens - Seattle, Washington
Unfortunately I've only been to a handful of these, but my favorite might be the USBG for its primeval room, which is smothered in cycads, ferns, and horsetails in the manner of the carboniferous period. There are cheesy dinosaur miniatures too, I think, but I won't hold that against them.
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