San Antonio Botanical Garden
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The San Antonio Botanical Garden is a 38-acre (150,000 m2), non-profit botanical garden in San Antonio, Texas, United States, and the city's official botanical garden.
History
The Garden was first conceived in the 1940s by Mrs. R. R. Witt and Mrs. Joseph Murphy, who organized the San Antonio Garden Center. The two went on to develop a master plan for a city botanical center in the late 1960's. The site of the master plan was a former limestone quarry and waterworks area owned by the city. Voters approved $265,000 in bonds in 1970, which was the catalyst for funding the new gardens. Ground was broken for the new facilities on July 21, 1976, and the San Antonio Botanical Gardens officially opened to the public on May 3, 1980.
The Garden has had two major additions since opening. On February 29, 1988 the Emilio Ambasz designed Lucile Halsell Conservatory opened to the public and later that same year the historic Sullivan Carriage House was moved brick by brick to the Garden. Restoration of the building began in 1992 with formal dedication in 1995. In 2017 with support from its $40 million GROW capital campaign, the Garden expanded eight acres. Complementing the existing Garden through a new entrance experience, a culinary garden and outdoor kitchen for teaching health and wellness, and a family adventure garden promoting nature play.
Features
Today the garden consists of the Lucile Halsell Conservatory, formal and display gardens, native gardens, an overlook tower and the Sullivan Carriage House:
- Lucile Halsell Conservatory (1988) - Designed by award-winning, Argentinian architect Emilio Ambasz this subterranean structure consists of five climate specific greenhouses surrounding a central courtyard. Specimens housed in the structure include alpine plants, aquatic plants, cacti and succulents, carnivorous plants, epiphytes, ferns and aroids, tropical fruits, and palms and cycads. The building won several architectural design awards.
- Gardens - Mays Family Display Garden, The Zachry Foundation Culinary Garden, Sensory Garden, Kumamoto En, Rose and Old Fashioned Garden, Sacred Garden, Cactus and Succulent Garden, Children's Vegetable Garden, Family Adventure Garden, Watersaver Garden, and Wisteria Arbor.
- Kumamoto En (roughly 85 feet (26 m) by 85 feet) is a Japanese garden reflecting styles and techniques from Kumamoto's 300-year-old Suizenji Park and from Katsura Detached Palace garden in Kyoto.
- Texas Native Trail - plants and structures from the East Texas piney woods, Texas Hill Country, and South Texas.
- Sullivan Carriage House (originally constructed 1896, relocated 1988) - designed by noted architect Alfred Giles for banker Daniel J. Sullivan. The structure was relocated, brick by brick, in 1988 from its original location in downtown San Antonio to the Botanical Gardens. The building was fully restored and dedicated in 1995. The structure now serves as the main entrance to the gardens and its former stables and carriage house contain a restaurant, gift shop, offices as well as event and meeting space.
Gallery
- Entrance to the garden
- Fountain
- Lucile Halsell Conservatory
- Lucile Halsell Conservatory (Entry Garden Greenhouse)
- Lucile Halsell Conservatory (Palm & Cycad Pavilion from Main Courtyard)
- Lucile Halsell Conservatory (Desert Pavilion from Main Courtyard)
- Lucile Halsell Conservatory (Palm & Cycad Pavilion Interior)
- Lucile Halsell Conservatory
- Overlook Tower
- Lucile Halsell Conservatory
- Lake in Piney Woods section
- The Green Archway at the San Antonio Botanical Garden facing the Rose Garden in 2021.
- A traditional southwest style house and yard at the San Antonio Botanical Gardens in 2022.
- The Zachry Foundation Culinary Garden at the San Antonio Botanical Garden in 2022.
- San Antonio Botanical Garden Imaginary Worlds Dragon exhibit in the Lucile Halsell Conservatory in 2023.
See also
References
- ^ "About Us". San Antonio Botanical Garden.
External links
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