Howard Peters Rawlings Conservatory Botanic Gardens

The Lenore Blog is featuring the Howard Peters Rawlings Conservatory & Botanic Gardens in this post. The Howard Peters Rawlings Conservatory & Botanic Gardens have been an institution here in Baltimore, MD since 1888. Explore these beautiful gardens before June is through.

The conservatory at the Howard Peter Rawlings Conservatory & Botanic Gardens is “the second-oldest steel framed-and-glass building still in use in the United States.” Make an effort to explore the beautiful greenhouses at the gardens this month. We know you’ll love the Mediterranean, Tropical, Desert, and Orchid greenhouses. The Palm House is our favorite greenhouse at the gardens. The Rawlings website states, “The Palm House grants the visitor an opportunity to return to the Victorian era, the period named for Queen Victoria, an English monarch who ruled from 1837-1901. Victorians intensely pursued engineering, exploring and collecting. These fascinations culminated in the construction of great iron, glass, and wooden buildings to showcase plants collected from worldwide expeditions. Though most Victorian parlors included plants, most homes could not accommodate the larger species, thus the popularity of the public conservatories for exhibiting palms and other large plants that require a tropical environment.” We think that exploring any one of these gardens would make for a fantastic day.

If you’d like a little more sun, stroll through their Outdoor Gardens. The Outdoor Gardens are a fantastic way to enjoy the fresh air, see some of the best plants in the area, and enjoy the blue skies this June!

Interested in learning more about plants? The Howard Peters Rawlings Conservatory offers classes and tours. Take a class to learn more about how to cultivate your green thumb. Tours provide another opportunity to ask about your plants and how to care for them.

Visitors at the Botanic Gardens are expected to follow certain etiquette rules. You can find those rules here.

Have you ever visited the Howard Peter Rawlings Conservatory & Botanic Gardens? What was your favorite garden? Let us know in the comments. Thanks for reading our post! We hope that you have a great month here in Baltimore, MD!