Spouse Program

NOIA is pleased to offer the following and succulents, bromeliads, cycads, and activities for the spouses and guests ferns. Approximately 4,000 plants are of NOIA members in attendance on display. The National Garden features at the Annual Meeting. As always, plants native to the Mid-Atlantic region, spouses and guests are also welcome as well as a Butterfly Garden, Rose to participate in any of the open Garden and First Ladies Water Garden. sessions of the NOIA Annual Meeting schedule. Please do not forget to Bartholdi Park on the conservatory indicate your selection of activities campus was created in 1932 and named on the Meeting Registration Form for Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, the in this brochure or on the online sculptor of the historic fountain located registration form at NOIA.org. If you at its center. The beds in the Park were have any questions, please contact geometrically arranged and planted Ann Chapman at (202) 347-6900 or in formal classical style to feature the [email protected]. fountain and to accommodate public gatherings. The plantings have been Thursday, April 22 redesigned during the last decade and are Explore the U.S. Botanic continuously updated to reflect modern Garden trends in American horticulture and new 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. plant introductions. The Park now serves as a home landscape demonstration Today, guests of NOIA will experience garden and showcases innovative plant The US Botanic Garden that includes combinations in a variety of styles and Bartholdi Park and the Bartholdi Fountain. design themes. The newly renovated Conservatory offers a beautiful and fascinating living After a morning of touring, Lunch will plant museum on our Nation’s Mall at be enjoyed at Art and Soul, located in the foot of the U.S. Capitol. The U.S. the heart of in Washington, Botanic Garden currently maintains DC, with celebrated two-time James about 26,000 plants, including economic Beard-Award winning Chef Art Smith plants, medicinal plants, orchids, cacti as chef/owner.

13 Spouse Program

Note: You will depart hotel at 10:00 While visiting the U.S. Capitol Visitor a.m. and return at 2:00 p.m. The Center guests will have the opportunity tour is $95.00 per person (including to visit the nooks and crannies of the lunch) Reservations are required. this powerful space not available to the general public including the Brumidi friday, April 23 Frescoes. The vaulted, ornately decorated Tour of the U.S. Capitol corridors on the first floor of the Senate Visitors Center wing in the are 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. called the because, although assistants and other artists The United States Capitol in Washington, are responsible for many of the details, DC, is a symbol of the American people the design of the and the major and their government, the meeting place elements are by , of the nation’s legislature. The Capitol born in in 1805. The tour will be also houses an important collection of lead by Barbara Wolanin, the Curator of American art, and it is an architectural the Architect’s Office. achievement in its own right. Note: You will depart the hotel at The U.S. Capitol Visitor Center is the 10:00 a.m. and return 12:00 p.m. newest addition to this historic complex. The tour is $85.00 per person. At nearly 580,000 square feet, the Reservations are required. Visitor Center is the largest project in the Capitol’s more than two-century history and is approximately three quarters the size of the Capitol itself. The entire facility is located underground on the east side of the Capitol so as not to detract from the appearance of the Capitol and the grounds designed by Frederick Law Olmsted in 1874.

14