List of the most popular hashtags for theme #SMITHSONIANGARDENS

Its #FlowerFriday! The Stokes Aster (Stokesia laevis) in the #HauptGarden is a magnet for Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterflies! (Papilio glaucus) #SmithsonianGardens #ButterflyGarden #Insects

It’s #FlowerFriday! From our #LivingCollections orchid collection, Prosthechea cochleata is blooming in our orchid house. #SmithsonianGardens #SmithsonianGreenhouse #Orchids

It's #FlowerFriday! In the Moongate Garden of the #HauptGarden, our lotus is blooming. Lotus flowers have great cultural significance and are regarded as a symbol of purity, enlightenment, and rebirth. #SmithsonianGardens

In the #FreerCourtyard, Heliconia ‘Choconiana’ brings a colorful, tropical twist to the formal courtyard setting. #SmithsonianGardens

It’s not always all about flowers here at #SmithsonianGardens! This Himalayan cedar (Cedrus deodara ‘Shalimar’) has a cone that is as eye-catching as many of the flowers you’ll also find in our gardens #conifer

Gloomy, wet Mondays are the reason rain gardens look so great! Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) is native to North America and is a great addition to a rain garden with its showy fragrant flowers. #SmithsonianGardens

It's #FlowerFriday! In the #UrbanBirdHabitat, Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) is blooming -- in a few weeks, the seeds will serve as a well loved food source by more than 300 species of birds that call DC home. #SmithsonianGardens #NativePlants #BirdGarden

In the meadow landscape outside the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, bees are keeping themselves very busy pollinating all the Agastache! #SmithsonianGardens #Pollinators

The Edgeworthia papyrifera buds are peeking out and soon will be blooming in full, filling the #HauptGarden with their beautiful sweet smell! Check back later this week when its in full bloom! #SmithsonianGardens