GardenCaching?

[+meralgia]

Have you been to a cache in a public garden during full bloom? What state is it in, and do you have pics, a fun story, or a GC#?

Edited November 16, 2007 by meralgia

[+StarBrand]

I've been to two of them. One was a bit ill placed with few clues in the descriptions and some damage had been done in the nearby flower beds. The other was hidden in a gazeebo in the middle of the plants.

 

I'll look for my pictures.......

[+eigengott]

Have you been to a cache in a public garden during full bloom?

 

Not in November.

 

But there's a cache just five minutes from my home. It's located in a beautiful public rose garden on top of an old fort:

 

[+the hermit crabs]

Have you been to a cache in a public garden during full bloom? Do you have pics or a fun story?

The best one we've been to is Come Back Next Spring Cache in Connecticut. The cache page gallery currently has 133 pictures in it, which is a hint that there's some worthwhile stuff to see

 

Here is the text of our log:

 

We've been waiting to go to this cache since last year. It was worth the wait! It's hard to express how wonderful this trip was. The pictures don't do it justice at all (but we're including some anyway) -- you just have to go there and experience it. We absolutely loved it. Acres and acres of flowers, and stone walls and rocks and hills, and a daffodil-covered island in the lake... All on a crisp sunny beautiful April day -- you couldn't ask for anything better.

 

The field was suprisingly crowded for a weekday. When we were approaching the cache site, at first we were thinking "There's no way we're going to be able to log this cache without being spotted." But it was amazing -- everyone was just staring in such rapt delight at all the flowers, taking pictures, reading the plaque, and just smiling into space -- no one noticed us at all, as we sneakily extracted the cache, signed the log, and replaced it.

 

Loved it, loved it, loved it. Thank you so much.

[+wiseye]

My first cache hide is in a Garden. It's been there since 2/2/2005 without any damage to the plants or property. There are currently 113 finds and 10 DNF's. People have added 23 pictures to the gallery, Guess they like the hide!

 

You got it, Babe! GCMNN6..................Sorry I can't link it, but take a look.

[rogheff]

I had one at my American Hemerocallis Society National Display Garden Here

[+Isonzo Karst]

Garden's on one of Lakeland, FL USA lakes here's my log with a few pics

 

lakeland garden

[+hydnsek]

One of the loveliest I've ever been to (caching or not): Kubota Garden in Seattle. Huge, amazing Japanese-style gardens.

[+apetro]

Here is one I found in Columbus, Indiana. There are some great pictures on the cache page. The cache is Irwin Gardens, GCWX6A.

[+sbell111]

I went to a really cool one in Paris. I'll try to dig up the pics when I get the time.

[+Harry Dolphin]

Not in full bloom when I hid the cache. And the garden is more of a formal conservatory garden, but here is a monarch butterfly feeding before the migration to Mexico.

Monarch butterfly

[+sillygirl & jrr]

Our most frequently found cache, The Queen's Iki (312 finds in 2 years) is in a small often overlooked public garden. We enjoy reading logs like these: "What a nice little garden!! Been by here many times, but had never stopped." If you are lucky you can find more than flowers.

 

[+TurtleMommy]

One of the hardest caches we've attempted was done in the National Arboretum in Washington D.C., called appropriately - The Nation's Garden GCHD5N. We went in Mid-May and all the flowers were starting to bloom and everything was so green. Also, made a little friend on our way back to the car.