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Video: Roaming the Salado Sculpture Garden

Salado Creek is guarded by a sculpture of a doomed mermaid, whose tears are said to feed its waters today.
L’horloge Fleurie (The Flower Clock)
Geneva, Switzerland

L’horloge Fleurie (The Flower Clock)

The world's largest second-hand graces a clock surrounded by constantly changing flower beds. 
Balboa Park Botanical Building
San Diego, California

Balboa Park Botanical Building and Lily Pond

Built for an exposition in 1915, these horticultural displays have stood the test of time.
Thomas-Siegler House And Garden
Takoma Park, Maryland

Thomas-Siegler House And Garden

Concerned residents saved this historic house and garden from demolition.
Jardin du Tripot
Honfleur, France

Jardin du Tripot

An art-filled botanical garden and former dyeworks hiding in plain sight.
Carlow, Ireland

Delta Sensory Gardens

Follow lines from a W.B. Yeats poem through interconnecting gardens designed to appeal to each of your senses.
Itinerary

7 Creative Ways to Take in San Antonio’s Culture

Remember the Alamo—but don’t forget San Antonio’s gardens, bridges, murals, and enormous boots.
Beautiful colors found at Asticou Azalea Gardens.
Northeast Harbor, Maine

Asticou Azalea Garden

East meets West in this Japanese-style garden featuring plants native to Maine’s Mount Desert Island.
Actor and director Sujata Day is obsessed with her homemade chai and doesn't go a day without it.
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Discovering the Modern South Asian Ritual of Making Chai

Remember the history, practice, and be creative.
Sujata Day July 13, 2022
Itinerary

6 Natural Wonders to Discover in Austin, Texas

Supplement your tacos and brisket with plenty of flora and fauna.
Butterfly Garden at Changi Airport
Singapore

Changi Airport's Butterfly Garden

Watch butterflies take flight before you fly.
Edinburgh, Scotland

Hutton Memorial Garden

A stone-filled garden in the heart of Edinburgh commemorates the father of modern geology.
Okochi Sanso Gardens
Kyoto, Japan

Okochi Sanso Gardens

This garden located inside a bamboo forest once belonged to a famous Japanese actor.
Metal silhouettes of little readers adorn the garden grounds.
Fort Worth, Texas

Southwest Regional Library Demo Garden

This library is a reader's paradise and a plant lover's dream.
A building in the Jardin d’Agronomie Tropicale.
abandoned

Podcast: Ruins of Le Jardin d'Agronomie Tropicale

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team May 12, 2022
Temple Ewell, England

Kearsney Abbey and Russell Gardens

Two beautiful Victorian-era parks replete with ornamental waterfalls and lakes.
Inside King Koi Coffee Garden.
gardens

The Vietnamese Cafés Where Koi Fish Are the Stars

These lavish coffeeshops are aquatic wonderlands.
Mervin Lee May 6, 2022
The Devil's Millhopper
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15 Florida Places to Be Nurtured By Nature

The Sunshine State is a non-stop playground for nature-lovers of all ages.