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Celebrate spring at Cleveland Botanical Garden

Mar 30, 2022 12:17PM ● By Today's Family
Experience spring in all its beauty at Cleveland Botanical Garden. Enjoy a captivating way to enjoy the great outdoors and get in touch with nature.  The gardens are awakening in the new season, and you will not want to miss it!  Cleveland Botanical Garden hours are Tuesday- Saturday 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. and Sunday 12 p.m.-5 p.m. 

The Ron and Lydia Harrington Perennial Playspace
The Cleveland Botanical Garden recently opened a new permanent exhibit for the kids (in all of us).  Using the plants and trees native to northeast Ohio and the Cleveland Botanical Garden glasshouses as a jumping-off point, the new gallery will celebrate the importance and variation of plants both locally and around the world.  The gallery is hands-on, open-ended, multisensory, and multimodal.  While the target audience is families and groups with children, the whimsical yet organic aesthetics are inviting and sophisticated so that even adults can enjoy and appreciate the space.
 
Spring Egg Hunt
Join in on Saturday, April 16 from 10 a.m. to noon for a classic springtime tradition, with a sustainable twist.  Out with the plastic and in with the new!  This annual egg hunt will feature sustainable seed bombs shaped like eggs.  Children can hunt and collect 10 colored seed egg bombs and take them home to plant.  Once the egg hunt is completed, children will have the opportunity to select a sweet surprise! Visitors can look forward to learning about seed dispersal in unconventional ways— leaping, twisting, and running! Advance registration is required.
 
Glasshouses 
Visit the Madagascar Spiny Desert Biome or “the eighth continent of the world” without leaving greater Cleveland.  This is home to a world-class collection of exotic plants and animals, including iconic “upside-down” trees, yellow-throated plated lizards, and three radiated tortoises.  

Additionally, experience the year-round exuberance you can only find in a Central American cloud forest in the Costa Rica Biome.  Towering trees, ever-blooming shrubs, and rich vegetation lend a lovely, tropical retreat to all who visit.  
 
Hershey Children’s Garden
The Hershey Children’s Garden will be open to the public on Saturday, April 16.  Help your child disconnect from technology and discover the wonders of nature.  As they explore plant and animal life, they’ll have a new appreciation for the environment.  They can become immersed in hands-on activities like observing honeybees in their hive, searching for fish, frogs, and turtles in the pond, exploring and playing in nature’s playground, and so much more!