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.
  • Vegetable Garden - four model gardens for the home gardener.

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North Alabama, United States Landmarks


Huntsville Area
Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical UniversityAthens State UniversityBig Spring ParkBuck's Pocket State ParkCathedral Caverns State ParkCummings Research ParkGuntersville LakeHuntsville DepotHuntsville International AirportHuntsville Botanical GardenHuntsville Madison County Public LibraryHuntsville Museum of ArtJ.F. Drake State Community CollegeJoe Davis StadiumMarshall Space Flight CenterMonte Sano State ParkOakwood CollegeRedstone ArsenalTennessee RiverUniversity of Alabama in HuntsvilleUnited States Space & Rocket CenterVon Braun Center
Decatur Area
John C. Calhoun Community College SystemCaptain William J. Hudson "Steamboat Bill" Memorial BridgeCooks Natural Science MuseumDancy-Polk HouseDelano ParkJoe Wheeler State ParkRhea-McEntire HouseOld State BankPoint Mallard Aquatic CenterPort of DecaturPrincess TheatrePryor Field Regional AirportRacking Horse World Celebration and ArenaTennessee RiverTuscumbia-Courtland-Decatur RailroadWheeler LakeWheeler National Wildlife RefugeWilson Lake
Florence Area
Alabama Music Hall of FameBraly StadiumNorthwest Alabama Regional AirportTennessee RiverTuscumbia-Courtland-Decatur RailroadUniversity of North AlabamaWilson Lake
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