At the risk of being drummed out of the Boy Scouts, in my world visiting gardens is on the same level as watching paint dry, just a green paint. Our visit to Chapel Hill Botanic Gardens was a big delightful surprise, as there was an exhibition amongst the plants of great and dare I say it, affordable sculpture.
After seeing the impressive bit of sculpture in the university gardens at the start of the trip (detail above and side) and the memorials in Washington I was now used to looking at good, exciting, high quality stuff..... A fun couple of hours......  PS The frog was alive.                  http://www.ncbg.unc.edu/