{"id":22170,"date":"2020-06-04T20:04:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T20:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/regional\/royal-botanical-gardens-will-start-reopening-outdoor-garden-areas-tomorrow\/"},"modified":"2022-11-28T19:48:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T19:48:57","slug":"royal-botanical-gardens-will-start-reopening-outdoor-garden-areas-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/hamilton\/royal-botanical-gardens-will-start-reopening-outdoor-garden-areas-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Botanical Gardens will start reopening outdoor garden areas tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Royal Botanical Gardens will continue a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rbg.ca\/all-outdoor-garden-areas-with-limited-hours-in-phased-reopening\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">phased reopening by allowing visitors access to all outdoor garden areas<\/a> starting on June 5th.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Areas that will be open to the public include Hendrie Park, David Braley and Nancy Gordon Rock Garden, Laking Garden, and the Arboretum.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This Friday June 5, we&#39;re opening all outdoor Garden Areas to the public for limited hours (10 a.m. to 5 p.m.)<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fj9ACNk8CY\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/fj9ACNk8CY<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HamONT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#HamONT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BurlON?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BurlON<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Royal Botanical Gardens (@RBGCanada) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RBGCanada\/status\/1268281503882121218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The RBG Centre and the Rock Garden Visitor Centre will only be open to provide access to the garden areas. All amenities and areas such as the Mediterranean Garden will remain closed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Admission will be provided on a first come first serve basis and regular admission rates apply. Directional and parking signs as well as RBG staff will be there to guide visitors in order to alleviate lines and crowding.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There will also be physical distancing guidelines in place with parts of the gardens remaining closed to prevent large groups of people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">RBG staff and volunteers will be wearing appropriate PPE and following strict safety protocols. It is recommended on the RBG website that all visitors do the same. There will be hand washing and sanitizing stations and washrooms accessible from outdoors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As the RBG is usually very busy this time of year, instructions on the website are stressing that visitors follow all guidelines and instructions while in the garden areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Lead image courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rbgcanada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@rbgcanada<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Royal Botanical Gardens will continue a phased reopening by allowing visitors access to all outdoor garden areas starting on June 5th.\u00a0 Areas that will be open to the public include Hendrie Park,...","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":22171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8065],"tags":[866,4999,5203,3085,19,20,3086,4352,5239,3131,716,5427,719,1599,2303],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/rbg.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27889,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22170\/revisions\/27889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}