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Botanical Gardens To Visit and Get Ideas

Botanical gardens are a great place to get ideas for your own garden. Find the beauty of the gardens and ideas for garden design and plants in these articles.

Beautiful bromeliads

Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park

Botanical Gardens

On a recent trip to Michigan, some friends introduced me to the Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids. We spent a few hours walking through the gardens and enjoying the lovely cool weather. There are so many indoor and outdoor gardens and sculpture to see, it was impossible to view everything in just a couple of hours. Plan …

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Orchids at the Frederik Meijer Gardens – Grand Rapids, MI

Botanical Gardens

Orchids are one of my favorite plants. I love the flowers. I have had a love/hate relationship with them for a few years because I could never get mine to rebloom. But this year, I have had all four of my orchids blooming happily. It turns out, that the house I lived in before, just didn't get enough bright sunlight indoors for them. So now I'm …

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Tall planters at the entrance to the gardens

Container Gardens from Frederick Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park

Botanical Gardens, Projects & Ideas

I had the pleasure of touring the Frederick Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan. These wonderful container gardens are from their 2015 plantings. The color combination of the tropical plants and the height of these planters really capture the eye.     These very large planters on posts were in …

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Pennsylvania Garden Tour

Botanical Gardens

Recently, on a trip to Pennsylvania, I was honored to receive an invitation to tour the backyard garden of a lovely couple. They asked that I don't use their name, but the husband did say I could refer to him as "His Excellency." He had a very good sense of humor and had me laughing the whole time. The garden was amazing! I have never seen so …

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Bromeliad in bloom

The Flowers of El Yunque

Botanical Gardens

Puerto Rico's El Yunque National Forest in the Luquillo Mountains is a beauty - full of an amazing diversity of tropical plants. There are 150 fern species and 240 tree species in this tropical rainforest. Not surprisingly, I recognized some of the plants growing in the forest as those sold as houseplants in the continental U.S. It interests …

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Mississippi State University Dorman Hall Gardens

Botanical Gardens

The folks at Dorman Hall have been working hard to create a beautiful teaching garden in a small space. I visited there this October and found a variety of garden types and some really cool plants. The gardens around Dorman Hall were established in 2008. A daylily garden, fern garden, butterfly garden, and vine garden were added in 2011. View …

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