COASTAL GARDENS

COASTAL GARDENS
Enjoy flowers by the sea
Celebrate spring with a trip to a seaside garden. The March issue of Coastal Living recommends five places by the sea to enjoy the flowers of the season. They are:
Blithewold Mansion, Gardens & amp; Arboretum, in Bristol, R.I., where you'll have sweeping views of Narragansett Bay.
Brookgreen Gardens, Pawleys Island, S.C., a former rice plantation that is home to flowers, birds, animals and 550 outdoor sculptures.
Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens, Mendocino, Calif., set along a rocky headland over the Pacific.
Butchart Gardens, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, a 19th-century quarry that now blooms with a million bedding plants.
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota, Fla., which has an unusual collection of epiphytes -- plants that require other plants or trees for support, including certain types of orchids and bromeliads.
For more coastal gardens recommended by the magazine, go to www.coastalliving.com.