The Bartlett Arboretum in Belle Plaine, Kansas, is an unusual facility. Located 20 miles south of Wichita, it is home to massive cypress, oaks and champion Japanese maples planted over the last 100 years by …

There’s nothing quite like a tulip festival where a Road Trips Gardener can pick the flowers.
That’s the promise of the Points East Coastal Drive’s You-Pick Tulip Fields from May 9 through 31, 2014.
Head …

If you’re wandering the Midwest the first weekend in May, Road Trips Gardeners, consider a detour through central Indiana, for Orchard in Bloom.
The garden show, now in its 25th year, will take place May 2 …

The 50th annual Bluebonnet Festival takes places from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. April 12, 2014, and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 13, 2014, in Chappell Hill, Texas.
Like most small town fests, it has …

The poppy season is expected to peak in mid-April this year at Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve State Natural Reserve, located 15 miles west of Lancaster, California, at 15101 Lancaster Road.
The reserve …