Celebrate
Mother’s Day Weekend with Bugs and Blooms at San Diego Zoo’s Garden Festival!
WHAT: The San Diego Zoo’s Discovery Days: Garden
Festival will celebrate the Zoo’s fabulous foliage and incredible insects with
displays, tours and tastings over Mother’s Day weekend. Come check out the newly renovated carnivorous
plant bog or see a millipede on the main stage during this festival. Kids will
be delighted by Dr. Zoolittle’s Gross Bugs show, and perhaps partake in an
insect snack! Moms will be enchanted by the orchid house. Booths will feature
information about making home gardens more beautiful and bountiful as well as
starting a community garden in your neighborhood. Guests will enjoy self-guided walking tours, a
scavenger hunt and kids activities. They can chat with a Zoo horticulturalist
or insect keeper and may meet a researcher from the San Diego Zoo Institute for
Conservation Research who is working to save plant species around the world and
in our own backyards. Guests also can book private tours that will take them
behind the scenes to see how the horticulturalists grow the Zoo’s collection of
more than 700,000 plants as well as get up close and personal with the creepy
crawlies that feed on them.
WHEN: May
10 – 13, 2012 (Thursday –
Sunday).
WHERE: The San Diego Zoo.
COST: Free
with Zoo membership or admission.
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