Articles tagged with: Wisconsin
![Story & Stroll in the Gardens](https://roadtripsforgardeners.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/wisconsin-janesville-rotary_storystroll.jpg)
Especially geared for youngsters two to six, Story & Stroll in the Gardens is an early literacy series at the Rotary Botanical Gardens. Each is a themed one-hour program that includes a half-hour story time …
![Orchid Shows Brighten the Winter](https://roadtripsforgardeners.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/pennsylvania-susquehanna_orchid.jpg)
If it’s February it must be the time for orchid shows. The wild tropical plant that’s become a reliable greenhouse bloomer brightens the days as the countdown to spring continues.
Orchidaceae, the Orchid family, is a …
![Holiday Light Show at Rotary Gardens in Janesville](https://roadtripsforgardeners.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/wisconsin-janesville-rotary_holiday2022.jpg)
A Holiday Light Show illuminates the Rotary Botanical Gardens, 1455 Palmer Drive, Janesville, Wisconsin, each year.
This annual holiday event is a seasonal escape into a winter wonderland of more than one million twinkling lights and …
![“Curious Caterpillars” in Rotary Botanical Gardens](http://susanmckee.com/roadtripsforgardeners/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/wisconsin-janesville-rotary_garden-logo.jpg)
“Curious Caterpillars”, a garden art exhibit, is on display in the Rotary Botanical Gardens, 1455 Palmer Drive, Janesville, Wisconsin, through mid-September.
This year’s exhibit is handcrafted wooden caterpillars built by RBG volunteers then painted and embellished …
![Grow History: All-America Selections Winners](http://susanmckee.com/roadtripsforgardeners/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Tithonia-Torch.jpg)
Special to Road Trips for Gardeners
By Mark Dwyers
Landscape Prescriptions by MD
When I was the Director of Horticulture at Rotary Botanical Gardens in Janesville, Wisconsin, we enjoyed our relationship with All-America Selections (AAS), and we …
![Holiday Light Show at Rotary Gardens in Janesville](http://susanmckee.com/roadtripsforgardeners/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/wisconsin-janesville-rotary_holiday2019.jpg)
More than 750,000 twinkling lights are promised during the 2019 Holiday Light Show at the Rotary Gardens in Janesville, Wisconsin, most evenings from November 29 through December 30, 2019.
Doors open at 4:30 p.m. The last …
![‘Tis the Season for Holiday Light Shows in Gardens](http://susanmckee.com/roadtripsforgardeners/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/england-waddeston_christmas.jpg)
As the daylight dwindles, botanical gardens and other public outdoor venues turn on fanciful light shows to attract visitors. November and December are the prime months for such extravaganzas.
Now through December 29, the Royal Botanic …
![Fall Garden Symposium in Janesville, Wisconsin](http://susanmckee.com/roadtripsforgardeners/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/wisconsin-janesville-rotary_fallsymposium.jpg)
If south central Wisconsin is in your travel plans this weekend, consider a stop at the Rotary Botanical Gardens, 1455 Palmer Drive, Janesville, Wisconsin, for an all day seminar Saturday (November 2, 2019) with Irvin …
![Home Garden Tour in Janesville, Wisconsin](http://susanmckee.com/roadtripsforgardeners/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/wisconsin-janesville_home-gardens.jpg)
Tour nine local gardens – and the Rotary Botanical Gardens – during the 25th annual Home Garden Tour in Janesville, Wisconsin.
Learn about the history of each garden, listen to live music and meet the homeowners …
![Fox Cities Butterfly Festival](http://susanmckee.com/roadtripsforgardeners/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/wisconsin-appleton_butterfly-festival.jpg)
The 11th annual Fox Cities Butterfly Festival takes place from 9 a.m. ’til noon June 15, 2019, in the City Park, 500 East Franklin Street, downtown Appleton, Wisconsin.
Admission is free. Activities for the whole …