St. George Village Botanical Garden
- St. George Village Botanical Garden
The St. George Village Botanical Garden (16 acres) is a botanical garden with arboretum located at 127 Estate St. George, Frederiksted, Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. It is open daily except Christmas; an admission fee is charged.
The garden is set in and around the restored buildings and ruins of a 19th century Danish sugarcane plantation. It contains over 1500 native and exotic species and varieties, including bromeliads, cactus and succulents, a conservation garden, a dry palmetum, heritage gardens, orchids, ornamental ferns, native arboretum (about 50 species), naturalized forest, rainforest (irrigated), and sansevieria collection.
It also contains a library of 500 volumes, housed in a post-emancipation workers' cottage restored in the early 1980s.
See also
* List of botanical gardens in the United States
External links
* [http://www.sgvbg.org/ St. George Village Botanical Garden]
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