What is a garden tour?

Garden tourism is a type of niche tourism involving visits to famous gardens and botanical gardens and places which are significant in the history of gardening .

What are Specialised gardens with collection of living plants?

Botanical gardens are specialised gardens have collections of living plants for reference. Herbarium is a store house of collected plant specimens that are dried, pressed and preserved on sheets.

Why go on a garden tour?

Tours are an excellent way to source ideas for solving landscaping design problems and finding inspiration for all the details that complete a garden that works on all levels .

What is the point of the garden party?

The main theme of ''The Garden Party'' is that very troubling tensions exist among different social classes . While a working-class man down the street has died from an accident, the Sheridan family carries on with their elaborate, excessive party, complaining about how exhausting it is to throw a party.

What is the hobby of collecting plants?

Plant collecting as a hobby Plant collecting may also refer to a hobby, in which the hobbyist takes identifiable samples of plant species found in nature, dries them, and stores them in a paper sheet album, a simple herbarium, along with the information of the finding location, finding date, etc.

What are the two major plant types that are living today?

Angiosperms and gymnosperms are the two major groups of vascular seed plants. Angiosperms, which are flowering plants, are the largest and most diverse group within the kingdom Plantae. With around 300,000 species, they represent approximately 80 percent of all the known green plants now living.

What do you call a place with a lot of plants?

garden (noun as in cultivated plants, flowers)

Why are some stadiums called gardens?

The Latin word from which “garden" was derived means "open space” ; an arena offers open space for basketball or hockey or whatever. The title seems to date back to the original Madison Square Garden in New York City, built in 1879. Since the original MSG had no roof, it was truly an open space.

What is a garden vacation?

Garden leave (also known as gardening leave) is the practice whereby an employee leaving a job – having resigned or otherwise had their employment terminated – is instructed to stay away from work during the notice period, while still remaining on the payroll.

What do you do in garden story?

Garden Story follows the adventures of Concord, the youngest and newest Guardian to protect The Grove. The island is inhabited by fruits, vegetables, frogs and other critters, and Concord must push back The Rot and solve The Grove's mysteries to protect all his new friends .

What is a garden view in a hotel?

Garden view it a nice view, usually a lush, manicured... tropical or otherwise garden . It is a way to say the customer on an ocean resort that you do not see the ocean from your room, apartment, etc., A resort view it is a view that is showing a large perspective of the resorts and its neighborhood.

Garden tours, plants sales and more ways to spend time among flowers (2024)

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Visit Maine's botanical gardens or get a sneak peek of what your neighbors are growing in their back yards.

PostedMay 13

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One of the loveliest ways to ease yourself fully out of the post-winter blahs and into springtime is to quit being a wallflower and instead surround yourself with living, blooming plants.

From botanical gardens to plant sales and garden tours, it’s time to make like the Scarecrow in “The Wizard of Oz” and while away the hours, conferring with flowers.

Here are more things to do in Boothbay

A tour group walks on the boardwalk at Viles Arboretum in Augusta. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal

Viles Arboretum is a botanical garden in Augusta with 6 miles of trails and more than 20 botanical collections. It’s open daily from sunrise to sunset, and admission is free. There are 224 acres with all sorts of flora and fauna to discover. Leashed dogs are welcome, and the visitor center is open from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday.

Viles Arboretum offers medicinal plant walks, and although the May 18 session is full, you can still register for the June 15 and Sept. 14 events, lead by herbalist, homeopath and flower essence practitioner Debra Bluth. Tickets are $25.

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The Mount Desert Land & Garden Preserve has four areas to explore on its property in Northeast Harbor: the Asticou Azelea Garden (dawn to dusk daily), the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden (noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday from July 9 to Sept. 8, reservations required), Thuya Garden (dawn to dusk daily, June 15 to Oct. 14) and Little Long Pond Natural Lands (hiking trails and carriage roads open dawn to dusk daily). On June 26, at the Wildflowers of Little Long Pond event, participants can wander around the garden’s fields and forest, spotting wildflowers along the way while practicing how to identify them.

Joyce Saltman, right, and Beth Anisbeck embrace a tree for 60 seconds during a tree hugging event sponsored by Portland Parks and Recreation, at Deering Oaks Park last year. Carl D. Walsh/Staff Photographer

TOURS AND MORE

2nd Annual Tree Hugging
11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. Deering Oaks Park, Portland. portlandmaine.gov
The tree hugging is a family-friendly community gathering to celebrate Portland’s many trees. Park ranger Liz Collado will lead a sensory awakening and forest bathing session. Along with tree hugging, there will be a storytime, and you can touch a forestry truck and meet naturalist Noah Querido and Portland city arborist Mark Reiland. Just down the road, you’ll find Fessenden Park, on the corner of Brighton and Deering Avenues. The tulips have arrived, and it’s worth a visit to see them.

McLaughlin Garden Lilac Festival
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 24. McLaughlin Garden and Homestead, 97 Main St., South Paris, $5. mclaughlingardens.org
You’ll find more than 125 varieties of lilacs at the McLaughlin Garden Lilac Festival. Explore on your own or take a guided tour led by a horticulturist. There will also be family-friendly activities, and you can shop for native and unusual plants.

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