Your love of plants and all things nature has lead you to get a membership to your local and/or favorite Botanical garden, Arboretum or Conservatory. This is a wonderful thing and one that will bring much enjoyment to your life. The many benefits to this limitless access to your favorite Horticultural haven are countless. With every time you go you’ll relieve stress, get a bit of exercise, some sun, see lovely gardens with flowers, trees and shrubs in constant, ever-changing array.
You’ll spot an occasional sculpture, fountain or waterfall and no doubt you’ll see some rather nice, friendly folks volunteering to keep it looking its best who will chat with you about that unusual plant they are pruning, propagating or planting. You’ll have butterflies flutter by your nose, chipmunks will scamper across your path usually followed by a cat, birds will swoop around building nests and feeding their young. You can join a Tai chi class in the morning on the great lawn or take a meditation class in the afternoon. You can ride your bike, hike or jog through anytime you like. Peace and tranquility abound and all for one price.
Yes, membership to a botanical garden is an amazing thing. But what if you are at once a gardening enthusiast and a lover of travel? Well, then it would behoove you to combine these two passions. How to do this is rather simple and virtually painless especially with your Botanical garden membership card in hand. In lieu of other less enjoyable touristy things to do you can include a leisurely visit to the local Botanical gardens wherever you choose to wander, vacation or pass through on your way elsewhere.
As you’re likely to find a garden almost everywhere you go and some of them, depending on how far and wide you travel, can be quite different from what you are used to. This will give you a whole new perspective on plants, garden types, styles and designs. You may see plants, trees, vines, herbs, shrubs, annuals and perennials you never saw before. You might even learn something. And that’s saying nothing about sculptures, musical shows and other things readily available at many Botanical gardens.
But how, you may ask? You only have a membership to one garden not all of them. As you may already know admission to Botanical gardens, arboreta and conservatories, at least the very good ones, can cost a pretty penny. One time admission to some gardens can be as much as twenty-five US dollars per person. This is not saying they are not well worth
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