The Changing Visitor Experience
The Changing Visitor Experience

An Expanding Horizon: Gardens for Everyone

Learn how to accommodate special needs populations as well as the needs of all visitors in a context that enhances everyone's enjoyment of the garden.


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Bringing the Ocean to Iowa

Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida, uses new technology to bring the ocean and its wonders to students throughout the country.


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Children, Plants, and Our Future

A new consortium of educators who have strong convictions about the importance of education with and about plants has as its goal to effect a large-scale, nationwide change in attitude and behavior.


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Collecting a New Species: Visitors

Changing exhibits enable gardens to offer new attractions and a new dimension to the visitor's experience.


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Collection Profile

Fairchild's Palm Collection


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Cracking Technology, One Nut at a Time

Technology makes the garden experience more productive and enjoyable for visitors.


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sLowlife: Communicating an Awareness of Plants Through Science and Art

Time-lapse imaging brings even the slowest moving plant to life and reveals intricate and sensitive behaviors of plants.


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The Changing Face of Education

What are the challenges facing garden educators and how are they preparing for the future.


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Who are our visitors...and what do they like?

APGA Survey reveals new information about public garden visitors, but gardens need more audience research if they are to produce relevant and appealing programs

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