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Carmel-by-the-Sea, California

Lester Rowntree Native Plant Garden

Named for a self-taught botanist who cataloged hundreds of native plants, this garden continues her work of preserving California plant life.
Can the famous greenhouse get greener?
botanical gardens

Kew Gardens Is Undergoing a Big, Steamy Change

Fitted PJs, new glasses, and a good drilling will keep this Victorian icon hot.
Daniel Shailer February 20, 2024
Rome, Italy

Orto Botanico di Roma

An oasis of beauty, tranquility and botanical research in the middle of Rome.
Wilmington, Delaware

Enchanted Woods at Winterthur Gardens

An award-winning children’s garden enchants visitors at the intersection of natural beauty and fairy tales.
Waltham, Massachusetts

Lyman Estate Greenhouses

These beautiful garden buildings are among the oldest surviving greenhouses in the United States.
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. 
Seen from space, the world's largest concentration of commercial greenhouses is a dazzling white patchwork.
horticulture

Southern Spain’s ‘Sea of Plastic’ May Actually Cool the Local Climate

The world’s largest array of greenhouses has transformed the region economically, and in other, unforeseen ways.
Gemma Tarlach July 15, 2022
Forestiere Underground Gardens
subterranean

Podcast: Forestiere Underground Gardens

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team May 9, 2022
The Tower House Hotel and adjacent orchards, circa 1860, painter unknown.
gold rush

How to Resurrect Gold-Rush Era Orchards Ravaged by Fire

The 2018 Carr Fire destroyed historic fruit trees—but not the will to make them bloom again.
Ashley Stimpson January 14, 2022
Ithaca, New York

The Cornell Apple Vending Machine

For a buck, students can snag freshly picked apples grown in the university orchards.
Santa Rosa, California

Crane Melon Barn

This California family's ancestral melon is sold only here.
Just doing its corpse flower thing.
horticulture

How a Giant, Stinky, Delightful Corpse Flower Got to an Abandoned Gas Station

It was all thanks to a gardener, a wagon, and a sense of pandemic-era camaraderie.
Jessica Leigh Hester June 1, 2021
A corpse flower blooming at a botanic garden in Bonn, Germany, in 2006.
botanical gardens

The Careful Work of Breathing Life Into the Corpse Flower

In botanic gardens, the lineage of a famously smelly plant is threatened. What can save it?
Doug Johnson January 19, 2021
horticulture

Preserve Your Quarantine Nature Walks With a DIY Herbarium

Pressed plants can be your journal of the pandemic.
Jessica Leigh Hester April 28, 2020
The rhododendron garden in May.
Portland, Oregon

Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.
A saintly sculpture.
Guanajuato, Mexico

Ex-Hacienda de San Gabriel de Barrera Gardens

This colonial mining complex is now home to magnificent themed gardens.
Spherical cricket container, date unknown, artist unknown.
objects of intrigue

In Ancient China, Pet Crickets Spent the Winter in Opulent Gourds

More than functional, these fleshy fruits developed into a striking art form.
Claire Voon June 5, 2019
Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden.
Los Angeles, California

Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden

This “living museum” at UCLA exhibits thousands of plant species from all over the world.