Huntsville Botanical Garden

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, receiving 307,985 visitors in 2008.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: Nature center - overlooks Little Smith Lake, houses the open-aired butterfly house, open May through September Biblical garden, featuring plants mentioned in the Bible 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 150 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 Tupelo, Red Maple, Sycamore, and Sweetgum trees, and undergrowth including Sweet William, Wild Columbine, Foamflower, Scarlet Sage, Bellflower, and Black-eyed Susan . Vegetable Garden - four model gardens for the home gardener.