Mark, I would add the Huntington Gardens, Libraries and Art Galleries near Los Angeles, California. If you are in the Chicago area, be sure to visit Boyce Tankersley at the Chicago Botanic Gardens. In St. Louis, Missouri, there is the incomparable Missouri Botanic Gardens. Have a great trip! Jim Shields in central Indiana (4 hours from Chicago Bot Gdn and about 6 or 7 hrs from MoBot, by auto) At 11:39 PM 10/20/2003 +0100, you wrote: >Thanks very much Shawn. I'll file the links for future reference > >Mark > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Shawn Pollard" <pollards1@cox.net> >To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> >Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 9:51 PM >Subject: Re: [pbs] visit to the US > > > > on 10/20/03 1:17 PM, Mark Smyth at mark@marksgardenplants.com wrote: > > > > > > > > hi all > > > > > > I'm planning a visit to the US next summer. Can anyone recommend some > > > gardens to visit? Gardens with interesting but not just everyday plants. > > > > > > Mark > > > N Ireland > > > > > > Some of my favorites for neat stuff: > > > > Strybing (San Francisco) > > Desert Botanical Garden (Phoenix, AZ--in summer, wait until monsoon rains > > come) > > Boyce-Thompson Arboretum (near Florence, AZ--spring my favorite time) > > UC Santa Cruz Arboretum (Santa Cruz, CA) > > Quail Botanical Gardens (Encinitas, CA--nera San Diego) > > Flagstaff Arboretum (Flagstaff, AZ) > > > > Best wishes, > > > > Shawn Pollard > > Tucson, AZ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > pbs mailing list > > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >pbs mailing list >pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php ************************************************* Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 Shields Gardens, Ltd. P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA Tel. ++1-317-867-3344 or toll-free 1-866-449-3344 in USA Member of INTERNATIONAL CLIVIA CO-OP