National Geographic March2020

TRAVEL | CHECKLIST

MARCH

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

NEW

BOOK

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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.

Here are five ways

to celebrate flowers

and gardens around

the world this spring.

BY MARYELLEN

KENNEDY DUCKETT

ART EXHIBITION

DIG INTO

DETAILED

DEPICTIONS

OF PLANTS AT

THE NATIONAL

GALLERY OF

IRELAND IN

DUBLIN. THE

EXHIBITION

‘DRAWN FROM

NATURE: IRISH

BOTANICAL

ART’ RUNS

MARCH 7

TO JUNE 21.

In Nature’s Best Hope,

author Douglas W.

Tallamy gives home-

owners tips on how to

establish conservation

corridors in their

own backyards.