A botanical garden in the DC metro area?
August 13, 2006 3:00 PM Subscribe
I was at a botanical garden right outside of Washington, DC. Where was I?
A couple of years ago, I drove from the Omni Shoreham hotel (between Dupont Circle and Rock Creek Park) to Arundel County. My directions were kind of crappy and I got somewhat lost, so I just meandered my way on surface streets until I was outside the district, then I hit I-95. Somewhere outside of DC proper, presumably in Montgomery County, quite near where I got onto I-95, I passed a botanical garden that I'd really like to visit. (In fact, I parked in the lot that day with the intention of visiting, before I realized that I didn't have time.) I didn't plan to go there that day, and for the life of me I cannot dredge the name out of my grey matter.
It was not, based on my memory of setup and signage and the like, a government-run sort of place. (At least not federal government.) So it wasn't like the National Botanical Garden or Constitution Gardens or anything like that.
It's not a lot to go with, I know, but I figure people power might serve me better in figuring this out than my futile efforts at googling 'botanical garden washington dc" and the like, which are not helping. If it helps at all, before I got out of DC, the one landmark I recognized in passing was the zoo. The garden was west of 95, not more than a few miles. Any ideas?
A couple of years ago, I drove from the Omni Shoreham hotel (between Dupont Circle and Rock Creek Park) to Arundel County. My directions were kind of crappy and I got somewhat lost, so I just meandered my way on surface streets until I was outside the district, then I hit I-95. Somewhere outside of DC proper, presumably in Montgomery County, quite near where I got onto I-95, I passed a botanical garden that I'd really like to visit. (In fact, I parked in the lot that day with the intention of visiting, before I realized that I didn't have time.) I didn't plan to go there that day, and for the life of me I cannot dredge the name out of my grey matter.
It was not, based on my memory of setup and signage and the like, a government-run sort of place. (At least not federal government.) So it wasn't like the National Botanical Garden or Constitution Gardens or anything like that.
It's not a lot to go with, I know, but I figure people power might serve me better in figuring this out than my futile efforts at googling 'botanical garden washington dc" and the like, which are not helping. If it helps at all, before I got out of DC, the one landmark I recognized in passing was the zoo. The garden was west of 95, not more than a few miles. Any ideas?
Response by poster: Bingo! Brookside Gardens it was, and is. Amarynth, I thank you most sincerely.
posted by Dreama at 3:42 PM on August 13, 2006
posted by Dreama at 3:42 PM on August 13, 2006
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posted by wackybrit at 3:05 PM on August 13, 2006