Cape
Fear Botanical Garden
From
the sculpture-like starkness of the winter forest to the colorful
masses of summer flowers, the Cape Fear Botanical Garden is
beautiful year round. Located on 85 acres where Cross Creek
meets the Cape Fear River the CFBG features a large urban
forest with nature trails, a natural amphitheater, steep ravines
sheltering unusual plants, and a variety of terrain from open
pine forest to lush riverbank. The Garden also offers an array
of theme gardens such as a Teaching and Pleasure garden featuring
wooded areas with nature trails, Water-wise Garden, Heritage
Garden, and Children’s gardens, as well as collections
of camellias and daylilies.
See
website for visiting information.
Daniel
Stowe Botanical Garden
This
Garden in Belmont, comprises a reserved 450 acres of prime
rolling meadows, woodlands and lakefront property on which
are Theme gardens for all seasons.
Visit
their website for more information.
The
UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens
This
Botanical Gardens comprises a combination of outdoor and indoor
garden facilities on the UNC campus, including a woodland
garden featuring a large rhododendron collection, an Oriental-themed
ornamental garden, and a tropical greenhouse. The 7-acre Van
Landingham Glen is a woodland garden showcasing native plants
of the Carolinas, as well as being one of the most diverse
rhododendron gardens in the Southeast. The 3-acre Harwood
Garden presents hardy ornamental landscape plants in a semi-Oriental
motif. The McMillan Greenhouse complex consists of 8 "rooms",
plus surrounding beds, terraces, and a courtyard bog garden.
The greenhouse contains an outstanding orchid collection,
a rainforest conservatory, desert succulents, and many plants
from the world’s tropical habitats outdoor gardens open
daylight hours, 7 days a week.
The
greenhouse is open Monday - Saturday10 am to 3pm
