Huntsville Botanical Garden

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The Huntsville Botanical Garden is a 112 acres (453,000 m²) botanical garden located at 4747 Bob Wallace Avenue, Huntsville, Alabama, near the U.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.

• 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, and sweet 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.

[edit] See also

• List of botanical gardens in the United States

[edit] External link

• Huntsville Botanical Garden - official site

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