Spring’s arrival ushers in a time of beauty, with brightly colored flowers adorning the landscape everywhere you look. Not only do these seasonal plants offer a visionary delight, but they also tickle your nose with a heavenly fragrance. Enjoy all aspects of floral beauty with our list of where to smell the spring flowers in El Paso.
Chihuahuan Desert Gardens
Located on the grounds of El Paso’s Centennial Museum, Chihuahuan Desert Gardens features more than 800 species of plants. The gardens kick off spring each April with FloraFEST, which is a time when you’re welcome to purchase native plants and take a bit of the gardens to your home. Chihuahuan Desert Gardens doubles as an educational facility where you can learn about methods to conserve water and responsibly landscape your own property.
El Paso Desert Botanical Garden
A visit to the popular Keystone Heritage Park wouldn’t be complete without a stroll through the El Paso Desert Botanical Garden. This garden shows El Paso residents and visitors that despite the hot, dry climate, the Chihuahuan Desert is home to a remarkable array of vegetation. A fountain, Koi pond, kids’ maze, viewing area, and amphitheater enrich your time seeing these gardens.
Once you visit the El Paso Desert Botanical Garden, you’ll be excited to share the experience with others. You can host your next special occasion here, enjoying the garden’s elegant floral backdrop for wedding ceremonies and receptions, private parties, and more.
El Paso Municipal Rose Garden
Take a moment to stop and smell the roses. With four acres of these plants at the El Paso Municipal Rose Garden, you can sniff to your heart’s content. This rose garden opened in 1959 and is currently home to more than 1,500 rose bushes encompassing more than 430 types of rose, some of which continue to bloom into the winter.
Rio Bosque Wetlands Park
Rio Bosque is a city park in El Paso, but the University of Texas at El Paso’s Center for Environmental Resource Management manages the 372-acre area. Rio Bosque seeks to remind visitors of and preserve the wetland areas once found on the banks of the Rio Grande. As work continues to save the important natural heritage of the El Paso region, the park exhibits the fruits of the Center’s labor with a variety of native flora and fauna.
Rio Bosque comes alive in early spring with native wetland flowers, including the sunflower-esque bitterweed. If you visit Rio Bosque Wetlands Park in April and May, you’ll marvel at carpets of this bright yellow plant, which grows to up to 1 foot tall. You can also see butterflies as they dance among the flowers.
When nature showcases her spring splendor, you might find it increasingly difficult to remain indoors. With the flowers on exhibit at these four wonderful locations around El Paso, you simply won’t be able to resist walking among the blooms and pausing to smell their glorious fragrance. We think that’s a pretty sweet idea, indeed.
El Paso Flower Image by Visit El Paso is licensed under CC BY 2.0
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