The Huntsville Botanical Garden is a 112 acres 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 garden is fifth on the list of Alabama’s top paid tourist attractions.
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 (Cornus florida) 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 (Polystichum acrostichoides), Northern Maidenhair Fern (Adiantum pedatum), Southern Maidenhair Fern (Adiantum capillus-veneris), Sensitive Fern (Onoclea sensibilis), Royal Fern (Osmunda spectabilis), and Cinnamon Fern (Osmundastrum cinnamomeum).
Herb Garden – 14 theme gardens and a cottage.
Nature Trail - paths through an indigenous southeastern lowland forest, with Black Tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica), Red Maple (Acer rubrum), Sycamore (Platanus occidentalis), and Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua) 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.
Plan Your Visit - Visitor Info
Garden Hours
April through September
Monday-Saturday ……
9:00 am – 6:00 pm
Thursday…………………9:00 am – dusk
Sunday…………………..12:00 pm – 6:00 pm
October through March
Monday-Saturday ……
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Sunday…………………..12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Hours subject to change.
4747 Bob Wallace Avenue, Huntsville, AL 35805
256-830-4447
via Huntsville Botanical Garden – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
