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Looking for a great late-winter event that also features lots of exotic and unusual flowers? Stop by the Ann Arbor Orchid Festival at Matthaei Botanical Gardens on March 16 & 17. Presented by the Ann Arbor Orchid Society, this annual festival is one of...

Local photographer John Metzler regularly visits Matthaei-Nichols and many of the surrounding parks and trails, and he always shares his images with us. John has an instinctive eye for animals and birds as well as the patterns of nature and its seasons....

The voodoo lily (Amorphophallus konjac) is blooming in the conservatory at Matthaei Botanical Gardens this week. This plant is the smaller cousin of the corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum located in the tropical house). At some point very soon this week the flower...

The snowstorm on Saturday, January 19 was beautiful but things turned cold and windy the next day. Photographer John Metzler visited Matthaei on Sunday morning to enjoy and photograph the snowy scenes. He was surprised to see another visitor walking the...

Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum invites you to apply for our Spring Artist Market in May! Here's how it works: submit your original, nature-inspired work for consideration - jewelry, sculpture, glass, photography, paintings, fiber, etc....

Learn something new about nature this winter. Our mission-affiliated groups offer discussions, presentations, and workshops every month of the year. Topics range from monarch migration to beekeeping to the quest for dark skies. Most programs are free...

Presenting Ann Arbor artist Jennifer Farina's original watercolors at Matthaei  Botanical Gardens. January 12-March 24, 2019. Free admission. Scroll down for a gallery of some of the works on display. Artist's statement:"These watercolor...

Happy holidays from everyone at Matthaei-Nichols!Our photo gallery offers scenes of the Arb and gardens in every season. Nature truly is a gift throughout the year! 

Fall is an amazing time at Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum. It's a colorful pause between summer and winter, when the weather could be anything at all and usually is, changing from 85 on Monday to 45 on Tuesday. Photographers John...