A photographer’s view of Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, photo by Robin Hill.
Beautiful wisteria vines become the roof at Naples Botanical Garden.
style gardens designed by famed international landscape architect Diego Suarez. The Fountain Garden features a plaza with a fountain from the Italian village of Sutri and, hidden among the strangler fig trees, Suarez added a two-story “Secret Garden,” where cactus flowers and succulents bloom in
Garden of Excellence award from the American Public Gardens Association. www.naplesgarden.org • 239-643-7275 United States Botanic Garden – Washington, DC Founding fathers Washington, Jefferson, and Madison first floated the idea of a garden on the National Mall in the late 1700s. It was created in 1820, formally established in 1850 and eventually moved to its current location in 1933. It has remained a small garden, occupying just a few square blocks, but it is a serene and scenic green space in the shadow of the Capitol, and it provides a home to more than 10,000 plant specimens. Among its features is a conservatory containing desert and tropical environments and laboratories devoted to environmental, horticultural, and botanical education. www.usbg.gov • 202-225-8333 New York Botanical Garden – The Bronx, New York One of the world’s foremost botanical gardens, the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) spans more than 250 acres including some 50 acres of old growth forestland and another 50 acres of well-groomed gardens. Collectively it serves as a repository of more than a million species of living plants.
pots built into the stucco walls. www.vizcaya.org • 305-250-9133 Naples Botanical Garden – Naples, Florida
This 170-acre tropical paradise features designs from a team of internationally celebrated landscape architects and includes examples of gardens typically cultivated in Florida, Brazil, Asia, and the Caribbean—and an expansive Water Garden graced with water lilies, lotus, and papyrus. Dedicated to the cultivation and preservation of plants that grow between the 26th parallel north and the 26th parallel south, Naples Botanical Gardens features seven ecosystems including mangroves, marshes, and pristine forests where hundreds of animal species and more than 300 species of exotic and native plants thrive. In 2017, just eight years after opening, the Naples Botanical Garden became the youngest to win the
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