Spring is Santa Fe’s “undiscovered season”, Road Trips Gardeners, so it’s an ideal time to visit before the summer rush.

At the Santa Fe Botanical Garden, 715 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, New Mexico, visitors find various wandering paths, quiet places to sit and relax, sculpture walks, a ‘dry’ garden, several meadows and an orchard, all of which have been executed with an eye towards responsible water use.

Free docent-guided tours are offered twice daily (at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.) April through October. From November through March, the tour times are 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

(Photo of Julia Child Floribunda Rose courtesy of Santa Fe Botanical Garden)