The Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden has extended its hours due to high demand for Dome for the Holidays. The local botanical garden transforms into a tropical light oasis during the new ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — The Des Moines Botanical Garden’s first-ever Dome for the Holidays event has been such a huge hit that organizers had to expand the event’s hours to keep up with demand.

It’s also getting a new look inside and out.The reconstruction of the Greater Des Moines Botanical Gardens will cost $11 million.The newly renovated dome will now feature fewer large trees to ...

Often, botanic gardens will organize their collections by ... is a visitor favorite and is the world’s first geodesic dome greenhouse. Other highlights include Henry Shaw’s original 1850 ...

The announcement was made Thursday by Assembly Member Patrick Burke who was accompanied by the botanical gardens’ CEO, Mark Mortenson, in the facility’s Palm Dome. “We are one of the few ...

In 1988, the Missouri Botanical Garden closed its huge geodesic greenhouse, the Climatron, when the Plexiglas panels in the dome became scarred and cloudy. The panels were so dingy they blocked 70 ...

When you enter the Missouri Botanical Garden, it’s hard not to notice the Climatron, the first-ever use of a geodesic dome as a greenhouse, Dedeke says. It’s climate-controlled, allowing visitors to ...

Explore the towering palm dome, a rainforest with a waterfall ... The Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens are open every day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (closed some holidays), located in ...