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Entrance to the Butchart Gardens Butchart Garden in Canada 2024 Robert Pim Butchart (1856–1943) began manufacturing Portland cement in 1888 near his birthplace of Owen Sound , Ontario , Canada. He and his wife Jennie Butchart (1866–1950) came to the west coast of Canada because of rich limestone deposits necessary for cement production.
This list of botanical gardens and arboretums in Texas is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the U.S. state of Texas [1] [2] [3]
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.
Type: Gardens: Location: Houston, TX: Coordinates: Created: 2014: Operated by: Hermann Park Conservancy: Status: Open year-round, except Thanksgiving and Christmas Day [1]: Plants: 650 azaleas, 490 trees of over 50 species, 55,000 perennial bulbs, 760 hedge shrubs & 4.5-acre (1.8 ha) of grass [1]
The Beaumont Botanical Gardens (23.5 acres), also known as the Tyrrell Park Botanical Gardens, includes botanical gardens and the 10,000 sq ft Warren Loose conservatory. The gardens are located in 500 acre Tyrrell Park at 6088 Babe Zaharias Drive, Beaumont, Texas, USA. An extra benefit is that the gardens are located in a migratory bird flyway.
The Amarillo Botanical Gardens (4.4 acres) includes botanical gardens and Mary E. Bivins Tropical conservatory. [1] [2] The gardens are located in Medical Center Park at 1400 Streit Drive, Amarillo, Texas. [3] [4] The gardens were established on November 17, 1968, after a number of years of fundraising. [5]
This was completed for the opening of the botanic garden in 1934. This area was redeveloped from 2013 as the Tinsley Rock Springs Garden, restoring the water features and re-planting with plants native to north Texas. [3] In 2011, new buildings for the Botanical Research Institute of Texas were opened adjacent to the botanic garden. [4]
There are also gardens to supply cut flowers, herbs, and an orchard with apple, plum, and quince trees; a rock garden tended by the Heather Society of Victoria; iris, lily, rhododendron, and rose gardens (including a formal Victorian rose garden based on the plan of that at Warwick Castle in England); and water features such as the fountain ...