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Pittsburgh Botanic Garden

Pittsburgh Botanic Garden

Pittsburgh Botanic Garden inspires people to value plants, garden design and the natural world by cultivating plant collections of the Allegheny Plateau and temperate regions, creating display gardens, conducting educational programs and conserving the environment. We’re nurturing a unique vision at the Pittsburgh Botanic Garden. We’re reclaiming land from Pittsburgh’s gritty, industrial past and transforming […]

The grounds of the Bellevue Botanical Garden originally belonged to Cal and Harriet Shorts

Bellevue Botanical Garden

Forty years ago, the Wilburton Hill neighborhood in Bellevue, Washington was forests and pastures. That all changed in 1981 when Cal and Harriet Shorts deeded their mid-century home and 7.5 acres of land to the City of Bellevue, with the provision that it would remain a public park. Not long after, Wilburton Hill residents, led […]