Arboreta

The Alfred B. Maclay State Gardens (28 acres) are gardens located at 3540 Thomasville Road, Tallahassee, Florida, USA, and maintained by the State of Florida. The gardens are open daily; an entrance fee is charged January 1 through April 30. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State Park"

The Alice Abel Arboretum 25 acres (10 hectares) is an arboretum located at 5000 St. Paul Street on the campus of Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, Nebraska. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alice Abel Arboretum"

Allan Gardens is a park and indoor botanical garden located in Toronto, Canada. The garden and the main part of the property was donated by George William Allan, a one-time Mayor of Toronto and long-time Senator. ...more on Wikipedia about "Allan Gardens"

Arbor Lodge State Historical Park and Arboretum (72 acres) is a mansion, state park, and arboretum located at 2300 2nd Avenue, Nebraska City, Nebraska. Park grounds are open daily; the mansion is open April-December daily. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arbor Lodge State Historical Park and Arboretum"

An arboretum is a botanical garden primarily devoted to trees and other woody plants, forming a living collection of trees intended at least partly for scientific study. An arboretum specialising in growing conifers is known as a pinetum. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arboretum"

The Arboretum of the University of Central Florida is an arboretum and botanical garden for the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida, USA. Spanning an area of 80acres (32 hectares), it contains more than 600 species of plants, including more than 100 bromeliads, in cultivated gardens. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arboretum of the University of Central Florida"

Arboretum Park is a small arboretum located at 310 E. State Street, Eagle, Idaho, USA. It contains 37 types of trees, as well as roses, perennials, native plants, and ground covers. All are identified by name stakes identifying the scientific and common names. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arboretum Park"

Arie den Boer Arboretum is an arboretum located in the Water Works Park 1,500 acres (6 km²) at 408 Fleur Drive, Des Moines, Iowa. It is open to the public daily. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arie den Boer Arboretum"

The Arizona Cactus Garden (30,000 square feet), also known as the Stanford Cactus Garden, is a botanical garden specializing in cactus and succulents. It is located on the campus of Stanford University (near the Stanford Family Mausoleum and the Angel of Grief), Palo Alto, California, USA, and open to the public daily without charge. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arizona Cactus Garden"

The Arkansas Arboretum 71 acres (29 hectares) is an arboretum located within Pinnacle Mountain State Park in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. Situated below Pinnacle Mountain along the Little Maumelle River, the arboretum's flora and tree plantings correspond to Arkansas's six geographical regions, ranging from the flat-topped hills and steep valleys of the Ozark Plateau, to the flat bottomland and tallgrass prairies of the Mississippi alluvial plain, with a 0.6 mile, paved interpretive trail. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arkansas Arboretum"

The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University was founded in 1872 when the President and Fellows of the then Harvard College became trustees of a portion of the estate of James Arnold (1781-1868). In 1842, Benjamin Bussey (1757-1842), a prosperous Boston merchant and scientific farmer, donated his country estate Woodland Hill and a part of his fortune to Harvard University "for instruction in agriculture, horticulture, and related subjects". Bussey had created his large estate between 1806 and 1837 by acquiring and consolidating various farms that had been established as early as the seventeenth century. Harvard used this land for the creation of the Bussey Institution, which was dedicated to agricultural experimentation. The first Bussey Institution building was completed in 1871 and served as headquarters for an undergraduate school of agriculture. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University"

The Bartlett Arboretum (20 acres; 8 hectares) is a historic, nonprofit arboretum located in Belle Plaine, Kansas. It is privately owned, and open to the public only upon special request. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bartlett Arboretum (Kansas)"

The Bartlett Arboretum and Gardens contains 91 acres (37 hectares) of parkland, gardens, and landscapes that focus on the regional plants, ecology and character of Southwestern New England. The Arboretum is open and accessible to the public every day of the year. It is located at 151 Brookdale Road in Stamford, Connecticut, USA. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bartlett Arboretum and Gardens"

Bayard Cutting Arboretum State Park is located on the east bank of the Connetquot River, in Long Island's Suffolk County, New York, USA near the village of Great River. The extensive landscape garden is in the nature of an estate arboretum, laid out starting in 1887 for William Bayard Cutting (1850 - 1912) by Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of Central Park, and given to the people of Long Island by his widow and daughter "to provide an oasis of beauty and quiet for the pleasure, rest, and refreshment of those who delight in outdoor beauty; and to bring about a greater appreciation and understanding of the value and importance of informal planting." Charles Sprague Sargent, director of the Arnold Arboretum advised in developing the extensive conifer collection north of the carriage house. Some of the most mature planting was badly damaged in Hurricane Gloria in 1985. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bayard Cutting Arboretum State Park"

Bedgebury Pinetum (the National Pinetum) is a 1.3 km² park near Goudhurst in Kent. It was set up by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Forestry Commission in 1924. It contains one of the most complete collection of conifers on one site anywhere in the world (its name is based on a neologism of pine and arboretum). In 1929 what are called 'Forest Plots' were set up to compare, under normal forest conditions, the growth of somewhat uncommon species, both conifers and broadleaved. There are now over one hundred such plots in the Pinetum. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bedgebury Pinetum"

The Beekman Native Plant Arboretum 3 acres (12,000 m²) features trees, shrubs and herbs from eight zones of the Siskiyou and Cascade mountains in southern Oregon. It is located behind the Beekman Museum House, at 352 East California Street, Jacksonville, Oregon, USA. ...more on Wikipedia about "Beekman Native Plant Arboretum"

Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest is a 14,000 acre (57 km²) arboretum, forest, and nature preserve located in Clermont, Kentucky (south of Louisville, Kentucky, United States). ...more on Wikipedia about "Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest"

Berthold Public School Arboretum is an arboretum on school grounds in Berthold, North Dakota. ...more on Wikipedia about "Berthold Public School Arboretum"

Bickelhaupt Arboretum (14 acres) is a non-profit arboretum located at 340 South 14th Street, Clinton, Iowa. It is open dawn to dusk daily without charge. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bickelhaupt Arboretum"

Blake Garden (10.9 acres) is a botanical garden located at 70 Rincon Road, Kensington, California. It is a teaching facility for the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, and is also the site of Blake House, the President's Residence for the University of California. The garden is open to the public during weekdays; no admission fee is charged. ...more on Wikipedia about "Blake Garden"

The Blithewold Mansion, Gardens and Arboretum is an arboretum of 13 ha (33 acres), located at 101 Ferry Road, Bristol, Rhode Island, mid-way between Newport and Providence, Rhode Island, on Bristol Harbor with views over Narragansett Bay. It includes a mansion, with a 4 ha (10 acre) lawn and over 300 species of woody plants in its arboretum and gardens, including both native and exotic species. ...more on Wikipedia about "Blithewold Mansion, Gardens and Arboretum" shortopedia, the smart choice.

Bodnant Garden is a National Trust property in Tal-y-Cafn, Colwyn Bay, near Conwy, North Wales. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bodnant Garden"

The Boone County Arboretum (121 acres; 49 hectares) is a young arboretum located at 9190 Camp Ernst Road, Union, Kentucky, USA. It is open to the public without charge during daylight hours. ...more on Wikipedia about "Boone County Arboretum"

Boxerwood Gardens 15 acres (61,000 m²) is an arboretum featuring both native and unusual plant specimens, located within a larger preserve in Lexington, Virginia, USA in the Shenandoah Valley. ...more on Wikipedia about "Boxerwood Gardens"

Boyce Thompson Arboretum State Park is an Arizona state park located near Phoenix, Arizona in the United States. It consists of a 323 acre (130 hectare) botanical collection that includes a wide range of habitats and a 1.5 mile (2.4 km) main loop walking trail. Founded in 1925, the arboretum is the largest and oldest botanical garden in the state of Arizona. It is jointly managed by the University of Arizona and Arizona State Parks. ...more on Wikipedia about "Boyce Thompson Arboretum State Park"

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