United States Botanic Garden, Washington DC

The United States Botanic Garden in Washington DC is a great place to visit if you have a couple of hours to spare as you plan your itinerary for a day’s trip to Washington DC in a charter bus. It is a huge garden with three complexes – two outdoors and one indoors. It is a really neat and interesting building with a variety of themes inside and totally worth your time visiting.

We would usually suggest to our Washington DC charter bus visitors to consider taking up a guided tour whenever they visit the United States Botanic Garden. This is because they will be able to learn more about the Garden’s plants with a guided tour compared to just going round the whole place by themselves. The guided tour takes about forty five minutes and it is free – all that you need to do is ask for it at the Visitor Information Desk upon arriving at the grounds of the Garden. However, if you intend to make this a trip for a big group, you will need to call them up in advance, at least four weeks in advance of your date of visit to book for a guided tour.

At the United States Botanic Garden, they have permanent exhibits as well as different kind of exhibitions and displays at different months of the year. This only means that whenever our Washington DC charter bus visitors go at any one time of the year and return on a different occasion, they can expect to see something different here and they will not get bored seeing the same exhibits again and again. In the Conservatory Terrace of the United States Botanic Garden is where they keep their permanent exhibits that would make you feel as though you are traveling around the world in there, with plants that are found in subtropical, tropical and arid regions in the world as well as medicinal, economic and endangered plants. Every year, from late May right up to mid-October, the Conservatory will put on thematic displays of plants. The other two complexes that you can find more interesting and unique plants are the National Garden and the Bartholdi Park. Both the Conservatory and National Garden are open daily from 10am till 5pm, while the Bartholdi Park is open from dawn to dusk and they are all open on weekends and holidays too - which means visitors can go any time of the year without the fear of being disappointed.