Gardens

Visitors to the site pictured in our February-issue mystery photo are rewarded with a 360-degree view of Osaka, Japan, and a panorama of Osaka Bay. To get to the deck offering that view, and back down, requires a long escalator ride inside each of two (now translucent) glass-enclosed escalators inside the Umeda Sky Building.

The 12th Les Flora lies Internationales flower exhibition, held every five years in Nantes, France, will take place May 8-19 in 2019 at Parc des Expositions de la Beaujoire (Route de Saint-Joseph de Porterie, 44300 Nantes). More than 200 flower and plant experts from all over the world will create landscapes at the exhibition hall, on the banks of the Erdre River.

A ticket costs €20.50 (near $23). Contact Comité des Floralies (phone +33 02 40 14 58 60, comite-des-floralies.com/eng).

More than 30 gardens in Amsterdam, Netherlands, can be visited, including private gardens usually closed to the public, during Open Garden Days weekend each year, starting the Friday before the third weekend in June (in 2019, June 14-16).

A ticket, valid for all three days, is required to visit the gardens and can be purchased for €18 (near $20) in advance online at www.museumvanloon.nl/tickets/otd-ticket-2019 or €20 day of. For info and ticket-purchase locations, visit www.opentuinendagen.nl.

9 days, 8 nights, May 24-June 1, 2019. Highlights: In London, ENGLAND, Chelsea Flower Show, Thames River cruise/transfer via Calais to Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS, for Aalsmeer Flower Auction, village of Volendam/in Bruges, BELGIUM, 16th-century gabled houses, Basilica of the Holy Blood/in FRANCE, Paris, Loire Valley, gardens of Versailles and Giverny. From $3,250 ppdo. Single supp., $1,311. Insight Vacations (Rye, NY; 888/971-6788, www.insightvacations.com).