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Florida Botanical Garden
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2 reviews for Florida Botanical Garden
This is a hidden treasure in the Largo area. If you weren't looking for it, you would drive right by it never knowing it was there. It is quiet and beautiful! My husband and I had so much fun walking through. I love photography and I got some awesome shots! We wandered through here in Sept so it was quite hot, but still beautiful. I'd love to come here during other seasons to see the different flowers that were blooming!
This nearly two-hundred-acre modern-day Garden of Eden is an unexpected refuge offering peace and solitude in an area whose landscape is blighted by too many strip malls and used car lots. Well-marked plants native to Florida are interspersed with exotic tropicals in a series of formal gardens that alternate with natural settings. I imagine it might be too uncomfortable to wander through here during the summer months, but in cooler weather it's a perfect place to catch up with a good book on a bench sheltered by heavy overgrowth or in a gazebo overlooking a lily-padded pond. I arrived here just in time to catch the last night of the holiday festival, during which all the trees are draped with thousands of colorful lights, and returned this afternoon with my mother. Under a weak winter sun, with an uncharacteristic nip in the air, the two of us strolled along the paths and found ourselves whispering to preserve the quiet that surrounded us. Like a visit to an empty church, it's surprisingly calming . . . and absolutely free.
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