San Antonio Botanical Garden
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The San Antonio Botanical Garden (33 acres) is a non-profit botanical garden located at 555 Funston Place, San Antonio, Texas. It is open daily except Christmas and New Year's Day; an admission fee is charged.
The garden was first conceived in the 1940s by Mrs. R. R. Witt and Mrs. Joseph Murphy, with a master plan developed in the late 1960s for the site of a former limestone quarry and waterworks. Funding began in 1970 with the official opening in 1980. Today the garden consists of the Lucile Halsell Conservatory, formal and display gardens, native area, and the Carriage House:
- Conservatory (1988) - collections include alpine plants, aquatic plants, cacti and succulents, carnivorous plants, epiphytes, ferns and aroids, tropical fruits, and palms and cycads.
- Gardens - Entry Gardens, Garden for the Blind, Gertie's Garden, Herb Garden, Formal Beds, Fountain Plaza, Kumamoto En, Old Fashioned Garden, Ornamental Grass Garden, Rose Garden, Sacred Garden, Shade Garden, Watersaver Garden, and Wisteria Arbor. Kumamoto En (roughly 85 feet by 85 feet) is a Japanese garden reflecting styles and techniques from Kumamoto's 300-year-old Suizenji Garden and from Katsura Detached Palace garden in Kyoto.
- Native area - plants and structures from the East Texas piney woods, Texas Hill Country, and South Texas.
- Carriage House (1896) - designed by noted architect Alfred Giles for banker Daniel J. Sullivan.
