The azaleas behind the 13th green could be the centerpiece of any botanical garden.
In the 17th century the English had picked up on the idea with the Oxford Botanical Garden.
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So visitors will learn at "Wild Medicine, " the new multipart show at the New York Botanical Garden.
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Featured in decorative glass balls, the plants were a hit at Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge, Mass.
It will feature a 10-car garage shielded by a waterfall, a grotto-like swimming pool and a botanical garden.
As much as anything else, "Wild Medicine" is a way for the New York Botanical Garden to honor its roots.
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In fact, for your first afternoon, you can go one of two directions the Desert Botanical Garden or the Heard Museum.
But as it turns out, the first coffee plant in Europe was grown in the Amsterdam Botanical Garden greenhouses, in 1706.
Staff from the town's botanical garden transform the piazza in front of the Basilica di San Frediano into a garden, with a different theme each year.
It was fascinating on a whole variety of levels, but one place we found particularly interesting was the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam, the Amsterdam Botanical Garden.
"Renaissance Herbal, " an exhibition in the Botanical Garden's LuEsther T.
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Next we turn north, floating past the fragrant botanical garden of Lord Kitchener's Island and the domed tomb of the Aga Khan, high on a sandbank to our left.
Ebbets focused on a former pig farm in a neighborhood known then as Crow Hill that had remained undeveloped despite grand plans for a botanical garden and museum nearby.
For Creative Spaces, an All Things Considered series that explores the studios, offices, hideaways and hamlets of artists, NPR's Michele Norris met Rashad in the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx.
Housed in a former school built by the Italian Workers' Society in 1901, the restaurant's dark stairwell opens on to a sheltered courtyard surrounded by mature trees and abundant foliage - part dining room, part botanical garden.
After that, 18 of the sculptures will be shipped across the Atlantic to be shown in New York Botanical Garden from May to November 2008 and in Atlanta Botanical Garden from May 2009 to January 2010.
Amenities that lie on or near the borders of West Brighton include the Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, an arts area with a busy calendar of performances and exhibits, as well as a children's museum.
At the end of the street where I live in the Latin Quarter of the Parisian Left Bank, there is an exquisite botanical garden, the world famous Jardin des Plantes, rightly celebrated by the French as the home of botany.
Museum staff worked for a whole year without pay before they lost every hope last October, gathered one more time at the fountain in the museum's botanical garden, threw a coin into it and made a wish that the institution will reopen soon.
Run by the same Croatian-Italian clan since it opened as a single villa in 1909, the hillside property overlooks an idyllic cove and has expanded into seventeen rooms tucked into charming bungalows and cottages, scattered throughout a lush, century-old botanical garden roamed by imported peacocks.
Most rooms have garden views and are decorated with linens and curtains featuring botanical prints.
Exit the common at Charles Street and cross to the Public Garden, which is Boston's beautiful Victorian-era botanical oasis.
The conservatory houses the show's centerpiece, the Italian Renaissance Garden, an evocation of the Western world's oldest botanical allotment, established in Padua, Italy, in 1545.
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