The Italian Renaissance garden inspired by one at Padua from 1645 (Margot Adler/NPR) |
The Renaissance Garden at the New York Botanical Garden (nybg.org), a recreation of a 16th-century medicinal garden, is so lush and colorful, it only takes a stroll through to absorb its good medicine.
The
garden, part of a summer exhibit called Wild Medicine: Healing Plants
Around the World. is a small-scale model of the 16th-century Italian
Renaissance Garden at Padua, Europe's first botanical garden.
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