Articles tagged with: September 2014

How about this, Road Trips Gardeners: a wildlife garden built entirely of LEGOs.
You’ll have to take a jaunt across the pond to see it, though. It’s a project of the LEGOLAND Windsor Resort, Winkfield Road, …

Road Trips Gardeners driving through Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this summer should schedule a stop at the Summer Flower Show in the Phipps Conservatory, One Schenley Park — especially if they have children in the car.
That’s because …

In homage to the beauty of the botanical world’s most bizarre flora, the New York Botanical Garden invited members of the American Society of Botanical Artists to participate in a study of the eccentric, creating …

Butterflies and flowers naturally go together, the latter tethered to the earth, and the former free to flit, bringing both color and motion to a garden.
Many conservatories host butterfly exhibits. Some are seasonal, others are …

The Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden Florilegium Exhibition opens with a reception from 6:30 to 8 p.m. August 14, 2014, in the Doty Board Room of the Minneapolis Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
What’s a …

Before he’s done, glass artist Dale Chihuly will have had installations in every major botanical garden from coast to coast (your Road Trips Gardener first saw his work in Chicago’s Garfield Park Conservatory).
Now it’s Colorado’s …

This summer, check out some great American gardens of the early 20th Century and the women who designed them during a garden-wide exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, New York …

Are you traveling to Switzerland with children this summer, Road Trips Gardeners? Here’s something new to add to your agenda.
Imagine you’re the size of an ant and live in a wonderfully lush alpine meadow. That’s …

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 …

“Thesaurus Woolwardiae: Orchid Paintings by Florence Woolward” opens April 11, 2014, in the Church Exhibition Gallery of Lyman Plant House at the Botanic Garden of Smith College, 16 College Lane, Northhampton, Massachusetts.
British botanical illustrator and …