Delaware Botanic Garden in Bloom During COVID

August 29 | by Claire Jones in the Garden Diaries

Rhyne Garden. Photo by Ray Bojarski

On a breezy, refreshingly warm, not hot day, I visited the Delaware Botanic Gardens to see see how things have developed in a year of many happenings, most importantly the impact of COVID. Like most other public gardens, DBG has been closed to the public all season and as a young, still expanding public garden, I was apprehensive that the closing would have a detrimental effect of rampant weed growth which could quickly overtake new plantings. And I was curious if the pandemic had any impact on the garden creation progress, when I pulled up to the DBG parking lot.

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