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The 170-acre Tulsa Botanic Gardens is located just northwest of downtown Tulsa at 3900 Tulsa Botanic Drive in Osage County. It's filled with lots of plants, walks and water features, plus a children's garden. The focal point of the garden is the A.R. and Marylouise Tandy Floral Terraces that features the Garden Cascade - a six-foot wide water runnel that flows down from the top of the hillside into the lake. In the spring, thousands of bulbs are in bloom and are one of the most impressive in the region.  Visitors can explore the four levels located in the terraces and enjoy the trees, shrubs, ornamental grasses, roses and perennials, while taking in the views of downtown Tulsa. The Children's Discovery Garden is a favorite spot. The Spring Giant is a 15 ft. stone face that is the focal point of an experience-based learning garden. This wonderland garden covers 2-acres and includes a Sensory Walk, Art Wall, Tree Fort and lots of hands-on activities. There's ...

ENCHANTING APRIL WITH AUTHOR DEE NASH Saturday, April 4, 2015 -  10:00am  to  11:00am Join native Oklahoman and author, Dee Nash, for a lively talk about all things growing.  Dee will inspire you as she shares tips for blending edibles with perennials in any garden, as well has how to prep, plant and grow specimen shrubs, perennials and tropicals that thrive in Oklahoma’s challenging conditions. To keep up with Dee online, check out her award-winning blog,  Red Dirt Ramblings .   Southern Living Magazine  recently named Dee a “ Blogger to Follow in 2015 .”  Better Homes and Gardens  put Red Dirt Ramblings in their Top Ten in 2014, and she won the Garden Writers Association Gold Award for best writing in 2014 Dee is the author of  The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: a No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff . She will have books available for sale after he...

At Tulsa Botanic Garden visitors can stroll the Garden’s Lake trail for a self-guided tree walk. The Garden is located eight miles northwest of downtown Tulsa just west of the intersection of W. 43rd St. N and N. 52nd W. Ave. Directions and a map to the Garden can be found at www.tulsabotanic.org. Phone 918-289-0330. The Garden will be open every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. through the end of October, and will offer various programs each Saturday such as gardening talks, plant walks, and drop-in activities for families. Suggested donation for admission is $2 for adults and 50¢ for children 12 and under. Admission is free for Garden members.  Located on a 170-acre site, the Garden currently includes a visitor center, a 7-acre lake with a three- quarter mile trail that includes some of the Garden’s first plantings. In 2013, garden staff and volunteers planted 1,200 perennials, tropicals, roses and shrubs to display beds surrounding the lake. This January, they added 7,...