U.S. Botanic Garden: 9/18/26

The place we visited this weekend, the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C., right next to the Capitol buildings, prime real estate downtown, U.S. Botanic Garden.

Now, I noticed that they use the word botanic here.

garden and first of all what's the difference between a botanic or is it botanical garden and a regular garden I did you know what qualifies a garden as botanic or botanical so I did a little AI scrape of this one AI overview says a general garden is grown mainly for beauty food or relaxation while a botanical garden, and they say botanical, is a scientifically managed institution dedicated to plant research, education, and conservation.

To which I thought, wait a minute, if I'm already burning water here, doing the AI scrape for this one, why couldn't I ask also, what's the difference between botanic and botanical? You know that one? Nobody does, yeah, except if you take the knowledge of everyone and have your bot scrape everyone.

They come up with this.

So both botanic and botanical are grammatically correct adjectives for gardens, with botanical being more common in modern English and botanic typically reserved for older historic institution names.

So the botanic garden, now this seems to follow.

If that's the rule, we are using some deductive logic here and saying, well, the botanic garden in DC, that's over 200 years old, or so they claim.

Now, the official date on this is 1820.

Although it says, yeah, the idea for this goes back to 1816.

The land was given by an act of Congress in 1820.

Now, it's different from where it is exactly right now.

There have been some shifts through the years.

And they've had additions and deletions, I suppose.

Well, of course, I imagine it wouldn't be the exact same size.

Right, neither is D.C., famously.

And now in 1933, the building moved to its present location.

So you're looking at something that's nearly 100 years old, I think worthy of botanic, with the coal at the end.

Now, you've been to some of the most famous botanic or botanical gardens in the country.

We went to one, I hope we talked about the one in Denver.

We've been to one in Norfolk.

We went to the one in Tucson at Christmas time.

That was lit up at Christmas a couple years ago.

Now, I did look into these.

So the one in Denver is the only one of those that apparently qualifies as being historic because that was the Denver Botanic.

The place we visited this weekend, the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C., right next to the Capitol buildings, prime real estate downtown, U.S. Botanic Garden.

Now, I noticed that they use the word botanic here.

garden and first of all what's the difference between a botanic or is it botanical garden and a regular garden I did you know what qualifies a garden as botanic or botanical so I did a little AI scrape of this one AI overview says a general garden is grown mainly for beauty food or relaxation while a botanical garden, and they say botanical, is a scientifically managed institution dedicated to plant research, education, and conservation.

To which I thought, wait a minute, if I'm already burning water here, doing the AI scrape for this one, why couldn't I ask also, what's the difference between botanic and botanical? You know that one? Nobody does, yeah, except if you take the knowledge of everyone and have your bot scrape everyone.

They come up with this.

So both botanic and botanical are grammatically correct adjectives for gardens, with botanical being more common in modern English and botanic typically reserved for older historic institution names.

So the botanic garden, now this seems to follow.

If that's the rule, we are using some deductive logic here and saying, well, the botanic garden in DC, that's over 200 years old, or so they claim.

Now, the official date on this is 1820.

Although it says, yeah, the idea for this goes back to 1816.

The land was given by an act of Congress in 1820.

Now, it's different from where it is exactly right now.

There have been some shifts through the years.

And they've had additions and deletions, I suppose.

Well, of course, I imagine it wouldn't be the exact same size.

Right, neither is D.C., famously.

And now in 1933, the building moved to its present location.

So you're looking at something that's nearly 100 years old, I think worthy of botanic, with the coal at the end.

Now, you've been to some of the most famous botanic or botanical gardens in the country.

We went to one, I hope we talked about the one in Denver.

We've been to one in Norfolk.

We went to the one in Tucson at Christmas time.

That was lit up at Christmas a couple years ago.

Now, I did look into these.

So the one in Denver is the only one of those that apparently qualifies as being historic because that was the Denver Botanic.