The Rites of Spring
Spring has sprung! Celebrate the most beautiful places to experience the season’s stunning colors.
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The Rites of Spring
The Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis: The nation’s oldest botanical garden — marking its 150th anniversary this year — is a riot of color each spring, entertaining guests with lovely views of crocuses, camellias, rhododendrons, tulips, snowdrops, clematis, cyclamens, orchids and intensely fragrant sweet olive. The Linnean House conservatory is fronted by a magnolia-lined walkway that virtually showers visitors with the flowering trees’ sweet, heady scent.
The Rites of Spring
Portland, Ore.: This city has a reputation for being rainy and gray, but all that moisture makes it very green, especially in the spring. A must-see is the serene Japanese Garden, which a former Japanese ambassador to the U.S. called “the most beautiful and authentic Japanese garden in the world outside of Japan.” Another flowery oasis is the Classical Chinese Garden: This walled garden in the heart of downtown surrounds visitors with orchids, lotuses, gardenias and jasmine and shuts out the nearby hustle and bustle. And no trip to the Rose City would be complete without a stop at the Portland Rose Gardens, where more than 500 rose varieties bloom each spring.
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The Rites of Spring
Vizcaya, Miami: The Old World gardens at Miami’s Vizcaya estate — originally the waterfront winter residence of industrial magnate James Deering — are nearly a century old and are considered to be among the finest examples of Renaissance gardens in the U.S. Topiary-style trees and shrubs and mazelike hedges set off fragrant, warm-weather florals; don’t miss the splendid “orchidarium” for a glimpse of these colorful masterpieces.
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