SOLACE Spring / Summer 2016

to be enjoyable in all seasons and to age gracefully long into the future. Indeed, while it opened to the public in June 2015, “gardens are never really finished,” says Director of Horticulture Steve LeWarre. “It’s a living thing that will continue to take shape and grow for decades to come.”

Indeed, there is no bad time to visit the Richard & Helen DeVos Japanese Garden at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, come winter, spring, summer or fall, morning, afternoon or early eve. (Just make sure Meijer Gardens is open before you come). You’ll find a changing kaleidoscope of delights here throughout the year. Likewise, with so many different discoveries and gardenswithin-the-gardens awaiting you, you simply can’t turn the wrong way once you’re here. Just come when you can, then go wherever your feet may wander.

And don’t be surprised to find yourself returning again and again – repeatedly breathing in this transcendental space that also has the power to take your breath away.