Houston’s First Botanic Garden Opens as a Museum of Plants


Courtesy of West 8, Barrett Doherty

Courtesy of West 8, Barrett Doherty

Dutch landscape architecture and design firm West 8 has unveiled the first phase of Houston’s first ever Botanic Garden in Texas. Designed to be a “museum of plants”, the project features evolving collections to inform scientists, tourists and horticulturalists alike. Conceived over twenty years ago by locals, the project has been developed on an island in the city’s expansive Bayou system.

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