On Wednesday, November 2nd, Botanica was pleased to host a community breakfast at the Louisville Water Tower on River Road. The event was titled “An Urban Garden: Growing Louisville Green” and featured Daniel Stark, former Director of the American Public Garden Association. Mr. Stark spoke about the many benefits an urban botanical garden provides to [...]

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Botanica is excited to announce that it is participating in this year’s Festival of Faiths – which takes place November 3rd – 7th at the Henry Clay in Louisville. The Festival of Faiths is celebrating its 16th year!

Botanica would also like to express their sincere thanks to Continue Reading

In the next couple of days, the latest Botanica newsletter should start arriving in mailboxes! Among the interesting articles you’ll find inside the newsletter is one highlighting some of the botanical tourism destinations in the great state of Ohio. While we’re eagerly awaiting the building of the Waterfront Botanical Gardens, there is plenty [...]

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Botanica is excited to host a Louisville Luminaries Panel Discussion titled: “A Garden of Our Own: Creating a Botanical Garden in Louisville” at the Louisville Water Tower on Thursday, October 6, 2011. This event will feature a speaker panel with well-known Louisvillians: Cindi Sullivan, Bob Hill and David Karem. (Learn more about our speakers below).

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The Waterfront Botanical Gardens will be built at the very end of Frankfort Avenue where it intersects with River Road. Here’s a photo tour of the Frankfort Avenue corridor (which starts at Shelbyville & Lexington and extends westward all the way to the Ohio River) from Camille McManus.

At the end [...]

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At Botanica, we’re always delighted to find excellent gardening blogs – especially when they’re close to home! That’s why we were excited to discover Garden Cincinnati – a blog whose byline is: “Gardening Anywhere and Everywhere.” Be sure to check out this great blog! It truly is a treasure trove of information for all [...]

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If you’ve never been over to Hidden Hill Nursery in Utica, Indiana, you really are missing out. In addition to a wonderful collection of plants, Hidden Hill also boasts a quirky, light-hearted sculpture garden. It’s definitely worth the trip! Maybe you’ll even be inspired to incorporate some sculptures into your landscape!)

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The Effortless Garden

On June 13, 2011 By Dominic

My wife and I recently purchased a new home and are enjoying our first spring/summer in the new house. We spent the winter frantically working on house projects, remodeling the kitchen and doing lots of painting. When winter began to wrap up, though, we eagerly turned our attention to landscaping!

We started seedlings [...]

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