quick note, botanical gardens

[Guest guest]

Austin has 22 acres (I can't find entry fees) and San antonio has 33 acres

and offers group rates for 15 or more. below are links to Austins gardens

and a blurb about San Antonios. Hope this helps - K

 

 

- City of Austin's Green

Garden<http://www.zilkergarden.org/gardens/greengarden.html>

- Cactus and Succulent

Garden<http://www.zilkergarden.org/gardens/cactus.html>

- Hartman Prehistoric Garden<http://www.zilkergarden.org/gardens/dino.html>

- Herb and Fragrance Garden<http://www.zilkergarden.org/gardens/herb.html>

- Isamu TaniguchiI Oriental

Garden<http://www.zilkergarden.org/gardens/oriental.html>

- Mabel Davis Rose Garden<http://www.zilkergarden.org/gardens/rose.html>

- Doug Blachly Butterfly Trail and

Garden<http://www.zilkergarden.org/gardens/butterfly.html>

- Pioneer Village <http://www.zilkergarden.org/gardens/pioneer.html>

- Various garden features<http://www.zilkergarden.org/gardens/various.html>,

including rainwater harvesting demonstration

- Historical and Architectural

features<http://www.zilkergarden.org/gardens/historical.html>

 

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The Garden Formal and Display Gardens

 

The formal beds are comprised of four large rectangular display areas which

are changed seasonally to display a variety of fun colors and textures.

 

Sometimes subdued, sometimes exuberant, sometimes humorous, these changing

displays are always worth checking out.

 

Reacquaint yourself with older flower varieties in the Old Fashioned Garden.

Savor sweet fragrances in the Rose Garden. Engage your senses of touch and

smell in the Sensory Garden (Garden for the Blind). Admire the unique

Kumamoto En garden, a gift from our Sister City of Kumamoto, Japan, with its

finely crafted structures and many symbolic features. Experience the beauty

of the Sacred Garden, Shade Garden, Gertie's Garden and other garden

displays. Learn from the testing and evaluations being conducted in the

Watersaver Lane and Ornamental Grass Garden. Lucile Halsell Conservatory

 

Designed by Emilio Ambasz, and built by the San Antonio Botanical Society at

a cost of $6.9 million, the Conservatory opened to the public on February

29, 1988. Plants from desert regions to equatorial rainforests are housed in

these individual glass buildings tucked into the earth. These buildings

surround a sunken courtyard and tropical lagoon filled with aquatic plants.

Specialty collections include epiphytic plants display, desert cacti and

succulents, equatorial tropicals, palms and cycads, tropical fruits, ferns

and aroids, insectivores, and aquatic plants. Each group is housed in its

own climate-controlled environment. These environments range from the

65-foot tall fog-enshrouded forest of palms to the glass display case filled

with orchids. Texas Native Trail

 

The Native Texas Trail is a unique aspect of the San Antonio Botanical

Garden. This area consists of plant communities characteristic of the Hill

Country (Edwards Plateau), East Texas Piney Woods, and South Texas. These

three distinctive and diverse ecological regions of Texas vary in soil,

plant life, topography, and weather. The authentic botanical setting is

enhanced by several early Texas houses, which have been reconstructed on the

site to help illustrate and interpret the regional theme.

 

 

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Kathleen Petrides

The Woobey Queen

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