Bugs and Blooms to Highlight San Diego Zoo’s Garden Festival - Mother’s Day weekend features plant magic, insects and fun!

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The San Diego Zoo’s “Discovery Days” Garden Festival will celebrate the Zoo’s fabulous foliage and incredible insects with displays, tours and tastings over Mother’s Day weekend from Thursday, May 10 to Sunday, May 13. 

Guests will be able to experience the newly renovated carnivorous plant bog or see a millipede on the main stage during this festival. Try a taste of one of their edible plants or perhaps a bug snack as you walk around the 100-acre Zoo. Kids will be delighted by Dr. Zoolittle’s Gross Bugs show and moms will be enchanted by the orchid house. Booths will feature information about making home gardens more beautiful and bountiful as well as starting a community garden in your neighborhood. Enjoy self-guided walking tours, a scavenger hunt and kids activities. Chat with a Zoo horticulturalist or insect keeper and meet a researcher from the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research who is working to save plant species around the world and in our own backyards. Guests also can book private tours that will take them behind the scenes to see how the horticulturalists grow the Zoo’s collection of more than 700,000 plants as well as get up close and personal with the creepy crawlies that feed on them.

The Garden Festival is free with Zoo membership or admission, except private tours. For more information visit www.sandiegozoo.org.

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