If you are looking for something to cater to your gardening sensitivities, why not take your vacation to hot garden spots. Spots such as the Idaho Botanical Garden are open year round for today’s gardener that may not be able to enjoy the love of gardening in the long Winter Months.
The mission of the Idaho Botanical Garden is stimulate interest in, appreciation for, and an understanding of gardening, horticulture, botany and conservation of natural resources.
Today, the Idaho Botanical Garden is not just about the beauty of their on-site gardens. It is also a living museum that will provide you with stimulating selections of nature in exotic communities of plants, theme gardens, display gardens, and a myriad of educational programs. Some of the features in the Idaho Botanical Garden Collections include:
• Alpine Garden
• Children’s Garden
Don Dick Outdoor Classroom is an arena-shaped grass outdoor classroom surrounded by trees.
• Garden Woods – trees planted by Idaho State Penitentiary inmates for the picnic grounds
• Herb Garden
• Herb Garden
• Herbaceous Border & Historical Iris Collection
• The Jane Falk Oppenheimer Heirloom Rose Garden
• Labyrinth Garden
• Lewis & Clark Native Plant Garden
• Meditation Garden
• Muriel and Diana Kirk English Garden was designed by world-renowned English landscape architect John Brookes.
• Muriel and Diana Kirk English Garden was designed by world-renowned English landscape architect John Brookes.
• Outlaw Field
• Peony Collection
• Water Features
The Idaho Botanical Garden is not just an extravagant garden setting with many living museums on site. It is also a place where public events and attractions occur where your gardening sensitivities will be tickled to your hearts content. In November for example, you can see the Winter Garden Glow, a feature of light and color, with many garden features highlighted on display and creatively arranged. There is nothing more spectacular seeing a live garden lit up for Christmas with nothing but the joy of celebration of living things as the key focus of such a beautiful event. This event is just one of many that can be enjoyed at the Idaho Botanical Garden.
If you are the sort that gets down in the dumps over your garden in the winter months, dump no more. Take a lively vacation to a garden that is open year round and will leave you so excited and full of new ideas for your next planting season.