Guided Walks
An hour in the Highlands Botanical Gardens with the people who know them best. Different theme, different guide, every week.
Twelve acres of native plants, and a different way into them each week. Our horticulturists, gardens assistants, and visiting botanists take small groups along the paths at an easy pace, stopping wherever something is worth stopping for.
No registration, no expertise expected. Wear shoes you don’t mind getting damp.
Walks from a recent season
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Tree Walk
An hour among the native trees of the southern Appalachians with the person who tends them.
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Iridescence in the Gardens
The shimmer, sheen, and structural color that turn ordinary leaves and petals into something luminous.
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Mindfulness in the Gardens
Slow down, look closer, breathe — an unhurried walk with plenty of pauses.
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The Flower Hunter’s Trail
Following William Bartram, who rode into these mountains in 1775 and never stopped writing about them.
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What’s Blooming: Bog & Pollinator Gardens
Late summer in two of the most distinctive habitats in the collection.
The 2027 walk schedule is still budding out. We are hard at work on the season — give it until the sap rises.