Boston Botanical Garden Indoor

A 281 acre preserve laid out by pioneering american landscape architect frederick law olmsted the arboretum stewards one of the world s most comprehensive and best documented collections of temperate woody plants.

Boston botanical garden indoor. When this greenhouse s most famous inhabitant a gargantuan corpse flower nicknamed morphy comes into bloom as it does every half dozen years or so thousands turn out to experience its notorious stench. Boston boasts several firsts. This list of botanical gardens and arboretums in massachusetts is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the u s. The boston public garden is america s first botanical garden 1837 and the arnold arboretum is the country s oldest public collection of plants 1872.

Arnold arboretum 125 arborway boston ma 02130 617 524 1718 www arboretum harvard edu. Best 5 new england indoor garden escapes dartmouth college life sciences greenhouse hanover new hampshire. Founded in 1829 the massachusetts horticultural society is the nation s oldest and is based at elm bank reservation in wellesley. Boston the botanic garden of smith college.

The arnold arboretum of harvard university is a museum of trees teaching the world about plants. Name image affiliation city. With controlled balmy temperatures be sure to bring a bag for stashing ski jackets these sunlit spaces feature exotic plants and animals as well as plenty of space for children for roam discover and daydream. Nearby in framingham garden in the woods is the.

The mission of the darwin project is to create a world renowned botanical garden and conservation learning center in the heart of boston focused on the beauty and bounty of nature and our collective role in conserving this diversity of life on our planet.