The UBC will focus on conservation and sustainability. Anderson said the work on the center will be very intensive for the next five to seven years. After that, the pace will slow down, but the center will never be done. There will always be new projects going on. The lawn is a plush shaggy carpet just right for sitting on.
Flowers blossom all around, in blazes of red and blue and yellow.
A fine time, indeed, to savor autumn in the garden - and savor too, a garden in the autumn of its days. After more than 40 years of thriving in this spot, the USU Botanical Garden is about to sprout shoots elsewhere. A victim of road expansion on U.S. 89, the Farmington garden is moving to Kaysville. By March, the flower beds and vegetable patches on the current seven-acre site will be no more. But up north a ways, the new Utah Botanical Center will set down roots on 100 acres of Kaysville ground complete with several ponds and surrounding wetlands.