Asticou Azalea Garden – Northeast Harbor, Maine
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The Hidden Gardens of Paris – Susan Cahill
I don’t normally review guidebooks, even though I do often read them more or less cover to cover, but I made an exception in this case, because this book really seemed to be written for me. It’s all about gardens – public squares, larger gardens, or even gardens attached to houses that you would never
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Central Park – New York City
Since I was already on the far Uptown side of Manhattan, I took the subway back down to Central Park, and walked through on the 85th street cut through, which goes by Belvedere Castle. You can climb all the way up into the tower, and there are some great views from there. The castle is
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Brooklyn Botanical Garden – Brooklyn, NY
On Tuesday morning, I hit the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. I was all excited because I was going to be able to use my Reciprocal membership from our Botanical Garden, and it turns out it’s free on Tuesday anyway. The coolest thing in bloom at the moment was the water lily collection. That happened to be
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Coastal Maine Botanical Garden – Boothbay, ME
What a difference about six weeks makes…
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McLaughlin Garden – South Paris, ME
So the other part of this weekend’s epic drive was a stop at the McLaughlin Garden in South Paris. It’s known for its lilacs (the annual Lilac Festival is this weekend), and they’re all planted in a pretty densely packed woodland area that last weekend was bursting with spring ephemerals. Totally worth the trip. (They
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