Brookside Gardens March 2025

We visited Brookside Gardens to enjoy the spring weather (80 degrees Fahrenheit in March!). The flowers weren't quite blooming yet but the gardens are still a peaceful place to visit. A lot of people were there enjoying the first taste of summer-like weather.

We saw a couple of spheres, one of which is part of a geocache.

Metal sphere in the Maple Terrace

How much patience to put this together?

The Wedding Gazebo does host special events but it is in the middle of the gardens. The white and purple flowers around it are lovely.

Wedding Gazebo

Flowers close up

Other early bloomers

By the Children's Garden is a bug hotel, a happy home from which pollinators do their job.

Plenty of vacancies

The garden has a small labyrinth nestled between two ponds. 

Pond with island and labyrinth

Walking the labyrinth

Can you spot the turtle in the pond?

Easier in real life

Also, it blends in with the water

Beautiful trees by the garden

Out by the road is the 40th Anniversary Grove, another quiet spot for relaxing. It is a bit out of the way from the rest of the gardens and was empty!

The stream that separates the Anniversary Grove from the rest

Sitting area

The gardens also have a virtual geocache, so I took a picture by the Formal Garden and Greenhouses.

Getting geo-credit

Typically, we visit Brookside in the winter for their Christmas lights. It's nice to come in the daytime and in warmer weather to enjoy the garden part of the gardens.