UW Botanic Gardens offers tours to domestic and international destinations that explore gardens, ecology, culture and community. Past tour offerings have included trips to Cuba, Chile, South Africa, New Zealand, Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Savannah/Charleston.
Check this page for future offerings.
Photos from 2017 trip “Behind the Garden Gate: Savannah and Charleston,” led by Eve Rickenbaker and Susan McLeod Epstein:
Read the tour blog, Southern Garden Gates
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- Wormsloe Plantation Library, Savannah, Georgia
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- Group at Wormsloe Plantation Gate, Savannah, Georgia
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- Tabernacle Baptist Church in Beaufort, South Carolina
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- Bald Cypress and Spanish moss at Magnolia Plantation and Gardens outside of Charleston, South Carolina
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- Group at Magnolia Plantation and Gardens Charleston,
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- Group on the Battery in downtown Charleston, South Carolina
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- Drayton Hall, Charleston South Carolina
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- Middleton Place, Charleston, South Carolina
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- Azaleas at Middleton Place, Charleston, South Carolina
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- Flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) at Middleton Place, Charleston, South Carolina
Photos from trips to Cuba, in 2012, 2014, 2015 & 2016, led by Dr. Sarah Reichard:
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- Soroa-orchid garden infrastructure
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- View Into Courtyard by S. Westcott
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- Palaciode_SanFelipe
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- Mil Cumbres – Microcycas
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- group – Bay of Pigs by S. Westcott
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- Farmer Miquel Salcines with tumeric
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- KORIMACAO musicians
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- Havana street car
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- Vinales valley
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- tobacco farmer
Photos from 2014 trip to Costa Rica, led by Dr. Sarah Reichard:
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- Photo by Joanna Livingstone
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- Photo by Lindsay Taulbee
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- Photo by Pelin Karaca
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- Quetzal_byFrankVassen
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- Photo by Dain Van Schoyck
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- Photo by Dain Van Schoyck
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- Photo by Dain Van Schoyck
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- Photo by Jennifer Shea Moses
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- the group
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- The ferry landing
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- sunset from our hotel
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- orchid garden
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- Blue-crowned Motmot
Photos from 2011 Chile Tour, led by Dr. Sarah Reichard and Dan Hinkley:
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- Allende – garden entry
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- Allende – from the house
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- Allende – refreshments
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- Alllende – hydranges
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- Grimm – balcony
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- Grimm – enjoying view
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- Grimm – pool
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- Grimm – enjoying the garden
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- group learns about wine palms
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- Muller – exploring the rocks
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- Muller – view from the living room
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- stand of chilean wine palms
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- enjoying lunch
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- wine palm fruits
