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Botanical gardens grow a wide variety of plants primarily to categorize and document for scientific purposes. [clarification needed] Botanists and horticulturalists tend the flora and maintain the garden's library and herbarium of dried and documented plant material. Botanical gardens may also serve to entertain and educate the public, upon whom many depend for funding. However, not all botanical gardens are open to the public. According to the Botanic Gardens Conservation International, "Botanic gardens are institutions holding documented collections of living plants for the purposes of scientific research, conservation, display and education." [1]From the late 18th century onward, European botanical gardens sent plant-collecting expeditions to various parts of the world and published their findings. Voyages of exploration routinely included botanists for this purpose. Subsequent scientific work studied how these exotic plants might be adapted to grow in the garden's locale, how to classify them, and how to propagate rare or endangered species. The Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, near London, has continuously published journals and more recently catalogues and databases since this time. Educational projects at botanical gardens range from introductions to plants that thrive in different environments to practical advice for the home gardener. Many have plant shops, selling flower, herb, and vegetable seedlings suitable for transplantation. Some gardens such as the UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research and the Chicago Botanic Garden have plant breeding programs and introduce new plants to the horticultural trade. Inside the United States Botanic Garden
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1. Plan for Cheap Romantic Vacations at Dallas
November 05, 2009
Planning a romantic vacation is somewhat as easy as surfing the internet if you know where to look at. If you are a romantic vacationer and at the same time practical with your budget, you should know about romantic place like Dallas. This city offer places for you to enjoy without worrying about the finances. Dallas has many amusing museums, botanical garden, parks, aquarium and everything that you probably looking for a perfect vacation place. With the list of Dallas travel attractions, you will not going to miss any romantic spots in the city.
What’s make Dallas an ideal place for roma... (read more)
Author: Karl Devis
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2. Botanical Garden Weddings - All You need to Know
October 22, 2009
Garden weddings are evolving and chosen specially when there is a desire for an open-air wedding. Many People Across the world are fond of garden weddings. It is because there is no comparison to the soft loving touch offered by the greenery of the gardens and the awesome colored flowers. The actual gardens or the garden style weddings arranged indoors make your wedding event very unique and beautiful, adorned with heavenly beauty all over. Garden weddings are very creative and help boost the emotions and love the couple share for each other. The main highlights of such weddings are obviousl... (read more)
Author: Allan Kennedy
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3. The Top 20 Best Public Gardens to Visit in the United States
October 08, 2009
For the past year I've been compiling a list of Public Gardens in the United States for my gardening website. These gardens all look like fantastic places to visit, but what are the most popular?
The most popular public gardens (based on online chatter) in the USA are:
20. New Orleans Botanical Garden in New Orleans, Louisiana
...a tie for #20...
20. Cleveland Botanical Garden in Cleveland, Ohio
19. Beaumont Botanical Gardens in Beaumont, Texas
18. Memphis Botanic Garden in Memphis, Tennessee
17. San Antonio Botanical Garden in San Antonio, Texas
16. Mi... (read more)
Author: Larry Truett
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4. Butterfly Gardening in Austin
October 08, 2009
Austin residents can visit one of the most beautiful butterfly gardens in the world at the Zilker Botanical Garden. The Doug Blachly Butterfly Trail and Garden features native plants and special feeders that attract many species of butterflies, including Red Admiral, Hackberry, Silver Emperor, Eastern Black Swallowtail, Question Mark, and, of course, the familiar black and orange Monarch butterflies. Homeowners can recapture that natural beauty at home by creating a private butterfly garden. Austin is home to over eighty different species of butterflies, so a butterfly garden is a simple proje... (read more)
Author: Joe Cline
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5. The Top 10 Public Gardens to Visit on the US Pacific Coast
October 02, 2009
For the past year I've been compiling a list of Public Gardens for my gardening website. These gardens all look like fantastic places to visit, but what are the most popular? I'll continue with this list for the Pacific Coast of the United States. The Pacific Coastal States are Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington.
The most popular public gardens (based on online chatter) on the Pacific Coast are:
10. Oregon Garden in Silverton, Oregon
9. Quail Botanical Gardens in Encinitas, California
8. Bellevue Botanical Garden in Bellevue, Washington
7. Alaska Botanic... (read more)
Author: Larry Truett
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6. Green Decor: Blooming Plants Can Bring Your Garden Indoors
October 02, 2009
During the cold winter months, you can brighten your home by the outdoors inside. The presence of green plants and botanical arrangements in an indoor winter garden can provide a welcoming and warm environment.
Watching Your Garden Grow-Fast
One of the most popular and intriguing blooming plants for indoors is the amaryllis. Although you can buy baskets of blooming amaryllis, the real fun comes from buying amaryllis bulbs and watching them grow. Common varieties of amaryllis produce long strap-like green leaves and single or double flower stalks that can reach two feet high. Each s... (read more)
Author: Stacy Winsel
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7. Function venues in Melbourne
September 24, 2009
Are you planning to organise a birthday party or your wedding anniversary or some formal event? It is suggested to decide a suitable function venue in order to make sure you and your guests have a good time. It can be a botanical garden, a hall or even the beach side. Whatever function venue you choose, it should make your event special. Some research to find the best place is imperative so you can enjoy yourself the most and, at the same time, you don't end up spending more than your budget. Gaining some knowledge of the best places in Melbourne for organising personal or professional fu... (read more)
Author: Karl Peters
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8. Landscape Design
September 03, 2009
You and your eco-conscious wife want to go green. Looking for inspiration, you wander through the lush, 250-acre forest, flower and plant habitat of the New York Botanical Gardens. You marvel at the 3,000 fragrant roses of the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden, and are wowed by the exotic tropical rain forest in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. Later, you resolve to turn your weed-infested backyard — more closely resembling a junkyard of trashcans, beer bottles, and the rusting remains of discarded bikes — into a horticultural Eden. To that end, you decide to hire a landscape designer. What I... (read more)
Author: Priyank Saxena
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9. Dinosaurs Take over the Zilker Botanical Gardens
August 12, 2009
These days a stroll through the Zilker Botanical Gardens could lead to an encounter with a small herd of Bambiraptors, dinosaurs with feathered wings similar to a turkey. The word "raptor" means thief and these little creatures, named after the Disney character, were known to steal the babies of other dinosaurs. The usually sedate gardens are full of all kinds of life-size dinosaurs, like the ferocious cousin to T- Rex, a Daspletosaur, standing at 33 feet tall. The 30 creatures from the DinoLand traveling exhibit will continue to have a temporary residence among the flora and fauna of the B... (read more)
Author: Dane Smith
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10. Great Gardens in Small Places
July 02, 2009
It’s only natural to have big aspirations when it comes to gardening. But if your available space resembles a window box more than a grand botanical garden, you still have plenty of options. With the right plants and planning, even small spaces can become great gardens, whether you’re dealing with a postage-stamp-sized yard or simply want to pack more pizzazz into a patio.
Make every inch count.
* Plan the landscape in layers. Look at your space from ground to sky and the progressively fill each layer with plants; ground covers, perennials and annuals, then shrubs and trees.
* ... (read more)
Author: Joe Swantack
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