Central courtyard garden at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

I had the pleasure of visiting the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, MA), on the second day of Spring 2024. I am sharing here some of the pictures I have taken of the central courtyard garden, which is covered by a glass roof and has a classical symmetrical design with some ornaments (sculptures, a fountain, ceramics). It is mostly a foliage garden, at least at the end of Winter. 

This is a stunning view and I regret to say, visitors are not allowed to walk into the courtyard. 

(Do not reproduce the photos without permission).

From the museum's web page:

"Gardens, both interior and exterior, are an integral part of the Gardner Museum experience today. When Isabella built the Museum, she created an experience that was as much about flowers and plants, artfully arranged, as it was about masterpieces of art. The culmination of that vision is the Courtyard but botanical images can be found throughout the Museum."

 To see some of the flowers, you can access to the following link:

https://www.gardnermuseum.org/experience/courtyard

"Throughout the year, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s always-blooming Courtyard is transformed through a series of ten dramatic seasonal displays that reflect Isabella’s passion for gardens as well as the skill and dedication of the Museum's horticulture staff. From orchids to nasturtiums to Japanese-style chrysanthemums, there’s always something new to discover thanks to the changing seasons and the rotation of plants. Most of the plants for the Courtyard are grown in the Museum’s temperature-controlled nursery and trucked to the Palace location, where they are rotated in to keep the displays in peak condition."

Regarding the architect Renzo Piano's wing addition, it looks interesting from the architectural point of view, but the landscape didn't pick up my attention, though I have to clarify that the trees were not blooming yet. The thin trunks are somehow similar to the thin posts in the entry roof, I can't tell if it was intentional.

Here I am sharing three of the pictures I have taken: