- Huntsville Botanical Garden
The Huntsville Botanical Garden is a 112 acres (453,000 m²)
botanical garden located at 4747 Bob Wallace Avenue,Huntsville, Alabama , near theU.S. Space & Rocket Center . It is open year-round for a fee.The gardens include a seasonal butterfly house, and aquatic, annual, daylily, fern, herb, perennial, rose, and wildflower gardens, as well as a nature path and collection of flowering dogwood trees. Specific sections of the garden are as follows:
* Central Corridor - with perennial garden, aquatic garden, and bulb and annual garden.
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Daylily Garden - over 675 cultivars of daylilies.*
Dogwood Trail - numerous flowering dogwood trees, including a hundred year old dogwood transplanted to the site, along a forest path.*
Fern Glade - almost 170 species of ferns, including Christmas Fern, Northern Maidenhair Fern, Southern Maidenhair Fern, Sensitive Fern, Royal Fern, and Cinnamon Fern.*
Herb Garden - 14 theme gardens and a cottage.* Nature Trail - paths through an indigenous southeastern lowland forest, with
black gum ,red maple ,sycamore , andsweet gum trees, and undergrowth including Sweet William ("Phlox divaricata"), wild columbine ("Aquilegia canadensis"), foamflower ("Tiarella cordifolia"), scarlet sage ("Salvia coccinea"), bellflower ("Campanula americana"), and black-eyed Susan ("Rudbeckia hirta").* Vegetable Garden - four model gardens for the home gardener.
See also
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List of botanical gardens in the United States External links
* [http://www.hsvbg.org/ Huntsville Botanical Garden] - official site
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