South Texas Botanical Gardens & Nature Center

South Texas Botanical Gardens & Nature Center
Rose Garden Pavilion

The South Texas Botanical Gardens & Nature Center, formerly known as the Corpus Christi Botanical Gardens and Nature Center is a nonprofit, 180-acre botanical garden and nature center located at 8545 South Staples, Corpus Christi, Texas. It is open daily; an admission fee is charged.

The gardens can be traced to 1987 when a first cottage garden (1 acre) and nature trail opened in Corpus Christi. Today's gardens, however, are on a different site that opened in 1996. The gardens have been actively developed since that time.

Major exhibits now include an arid garden; Exhibit House with bromeliads, cycads, cacti, and succulents; hibiscus garden; hummingbird garden; landscape demonstration beds; orchid house with more than 3000 orchids; a major collection of more than 100 plumeria varieties; contemporary rose garden with a large pavilion; sensory garden; and water garden.

The site also contains a mesquite nature trail through 30 acres (120,000 m²) of brush. It features some 35 species of woody trees and shrubs, herbs, grasses, and cacti, as well as white-tailed deer, collared peccaries, and coyotes.

External links

South Texas Botanical Gardens and Nature Center

City of Corpus Christi

Education

Schools	Corpus Christi ISD Mary Carroll HS Richard King HS Roy Miller HS Foy H. Moody HS W. B. Ray HS Veterans Memorial HS Calallen ISD Calallen HS Flour Bluff ISD flour Bluff HS Ingleside ISD London ISD Port Aransas ISD Riviera ISD Tuloso-Midway ISD Tuloso-Midway HS West Oso ISD West Oso HS
Colleges and universities	Del Mar College Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi