National Geographic USA - 03.2020

THE JEWEL COMPLEX at Singapore’s Changi Airport

takes “green travel” literally. Inside the terrarium-like

dome, find more than 2,000 trees and 100,000 shrubs,

plus the world’s tallest indoor waterfall.

LIGHT SCULPTURES

How Does Your
Garden Glow?

Find out at South

Carolina’s Brook-

green Gardens

April 8 through

September 12,

when artist Bruce

Munro’s installa-

tions illuminate

seven areas, includ-

ing the arboretum.

Munro also created

California’s recent

“Field of Light at

Sensorio,” above.

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AIRPORT

PHOTOS (CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT): GEORGE LIN; COBRA LILY, DARLINGTONIA CALIFORNICA (DETAIL), 1886, BY LYDIA SHACKLETON,

COURTESY NATIONAL BOTANIC GARDENS, DUBLIN; EM CAMPOS; MARK THIESSEN, NGM STAFF; LEENA ROBINSON, ALAMY STOCK PHOTO

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BLOSSOM WATCH

Lone Star State Flower

Waves of wild bluebonnets turn

the Texas Hill Country into a sea

of cerulean and nourish several

species of butterflies, typically from

late March until mid to late April.

In Nature’s Best Hope,

author Douglas W.

Tallamy gives home-

owners tips on how to

establish conservation

corridors in their

own backyards.