Mobile Botanical Gardens
The Mobile Botanical Gardens were founded in 1974, and are located on Museum Drive in the Spring Hill community in Mobile, Alabama, United States.
Description
The gardens are situated on 100 acres (0.40 km2) and are a blend of cultivated areas and natural habitats, including the Rhododendron Garden, Camellia Wintergarden, Fern Glade, Fragrance and Texture Garden, Japanese Maple Garden, Herb garden, and a Longleaf Pine habitat of 40 acres (160,000 m2).
The Rhododendron Garden contains eight collections of approximately 1,000 evergreen and native azaleas. The plantings were newly installed in 2006 within an older azalea garden. The collections here include Encore, Harris, Holly Springs, Mobile, National Arboretum Kurumes, Nuccio, Robin Hill, and Southern Indica. This is the most comprehensive rhododendron collection anywhere along the Gulf Coast. Another area of special note is the Longleaf Pine Habitat, a preserved remnant of the great southern longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) ecosystem that once dominated the American South. It is an extremely diversified habitat with 49 vascular plant families, 159 vascular plant species, 72 woody species, and 21 naturalized species cataloged in May and June 2007. Installed in 2007, the Camellia Wintergarden is a collection of 500 camellias, 350 newly planted, with 75 planted over thirty years ago.
Mobile Botanical Gardens is a 501(c)3 non-profit, and funding is mainly through contributions, grants, plant sales, and membership dues. It is open year-round from dawn to dusk. Admission is $5 for adults, children 12 and under are free.
- Rhododendron Garden
- Magnolia 'White Stardust'
- Fragrance and Texture garden
- Herb Garden
See also
External links
- Official website
- v
- t
- e
- Africatown
- Airport Boulevard
- Blakeley Island
- Brookley Air Force Base
- Dog River
- Fowl River
- Government Street
- Mobile Bay
- Mobile River
- Mobile–Tensaw River Delta
- Old Shell Road
- Pinto Island
- Spanish River
- Spring Hill
- Toulminville
- Mayor (list)
- Tallest buildings in Mobile
- RSA Battle House Tower
- RSA–BankTrust Building
- Renaissance Riverview Plaza Hotel
- Mobile Government Plaza
- Regions Bank Building
- Wachovia Building
- Providence Hospital
- Van Antwerp Building
- The Battle House Hotel
- NRHP (list)
- Ahavas Chesed Cemetery
- Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company
- Boyington Oak
- Duffie Oak
- Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception
- Catholic Cemetery
- Church Street Graveyard
- Fort Charlotte
- Magnolia Cemetery
- Sha'arai Shomayim Cemetery
- Bellingrath Gardens and Home
- Bienville Square
- Cathedral Square
- Langan Park
- Mobile Botanical Gardens
- Mardi Gras Park
K–12 |
|
---|---|
Tertiary |
- Battleship Memorial Park
- USS Alabama
- USS Drum
- Fort Conde
- Mobile Carnival Museum
- Mobile Museum of Art
- Museum of Mobile
- National African American Archives and Museum
- Oakleigh Historic Complex
- Richards DAR House
- Lagniappe
- Mod Mobilian
- Press-Register
- WFNA 55
- WKRG 5
- WPMI 15
- Category
30°41′59″N 88°09′41″W / 30.69959°N 88.16146°W / 30.69959; -88.16146