Bivin Garden: P.O. Box 154, 25
miles east of Ponca City on Highway 11,
Shidler, OK 74652 (918)793-4011.
- This 6
acre garden features 40 flower beds, 4 rockeries (with rocks from Africa and
South America), ornamental ponds and aviaries.
Cann Memorial
Garden: Junction of Highway 77 and Grand Avenue,
Ponca City, OK (405)
767-0430.
Cedarvale Botanic Garden and Restaurant: Exit 51 off I-35, then south 1/2
mile on Highway 77,
Davis, OK 73030 (405)369-3224.
- A former resort, the
restaurant (renowned for its trout) now overlooks the garden, a creek and a
limestone bluff. The garden, with greenhouse, arbors and bridges, features a
tropical hibiscus collection, 2,500 tulips, waterfalls, and an arboretum. A
vegetable garden furnishes fresh produce for the restaurant.
Charles E.
Sparks Rose Garden: Will Rogers Park, 3500 NW 36th Street,
Oklahoma City, OK
73112.
- This garden is an All America Rose Selections accredited rose garden with
more than 3,000 rose bushes. See Will Rogers Park, below.
Garrard Ardeneum: Next
to Puterbaugh House, 501 N. Fifth Street,
McAlester, OK 74501 (918)423-1555.
- The
Garrard Ardeneum, a combination of an arboretum and a museum, offers a variety
of gardens with native trees, shrubs, flowers and rock, plus historical artifacts.
Hambrick Botanical
Garden:
National Cowboy Hall of Fame, 1700 NE 63rd Street,
Oklahoma City, OK
73111 (405)478-2250.
- The grounds of the Cowboy Hall of Fame feature statuary,
gravesites of 2 famous horses, and this botanical garden.
Honor Heights Park: (Click on
Parks) Honor Heights Drive,
Muskogee, OK 74403 (918)684-6302.
- This beautifully
landscaped 122 acre public park with fountains and ponds features a magnificent
display of 30,000 azaleas of 625 varieties (it's the site of an annual azalea
festival), the J. E. Conard Rose Garden (3,500 rose bushes), the C. Clay Harrell
Arboretum (170 commonly used trees), the Art Johnson Memorial Dogwood Collection
(a synoptic collection of 60 varieties), the Elbert L. Little Jr. Oklahoma Grove
(planned to include every Oklahoma tree variety), The Henry Bresser Nature Trail
(with labeled plants) and the Five Civilized Tribes Museum.
An
Oklahoma Botanical Garden Affiliate Garden.
Inspiration Garden: 701 S. Main,
Eufaula, OK.
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A true community community garden, the lovely Eufaula Inspiration Garden has been created in cooperation with the proud
merchants, residents, and agencies of McIntosh County. All flowers, shrubs, trees and decorations are donated and all
staff are volunteers.
Jo Allen Lowe
Park: Price Street (West of Highway 75),
Bartlesville, OK.
Lendonwood Gardens: 1308 West 13th
Street,
Grove, OK 74344 (918)786-2938.
- This lovely 3 acre garden contains 1,400
different plants in a Display Garden, an Oriental Garden, an English Terrace
Garden, a Japanese Garden, and the American Backyard Garden. Plants include the
largest collection of rhododendrons in the midwest, a collection of azaleas, a
collection of chamaecyparis (false cypress), daylilies (500 varieties), bonsai
trees (120 specimens), Japanese maples (75 varieties), dogwoods (25 varieties),
hostas (70 varieties), and nine small waterfalls.
An
Oklahoma Botanical Garden Affiliate Garden.
McAlester Arboretum:
McAlester, OK 74501 (918)421-4901.
Midwest City Hall Arboretum:
100 N. Midwest Boulevard,
Midwest City, OK 73110 (405)739-1376.
- This 5 acre
arboretum and landscaped campus showcases 15,000 spring flowering bulbs, mature
trees and perennial plants. It also connects to the Midwest City Natural Trail
and Nature Garden.
Myriad Botanical
Gardens and Crystal Bridge Tropical Conservatory: 100 Myriad Gardens (corner
of Reno and Robinson),
Oklahoma City, OK 73102 (405)297-3995.
- This fabulous 7
story conservatory, designed by I.M. Pei, perched over a natural lake, offers a
35 foot waterfall, a Rain Forest (plants from South America, Central Africa,
Southeast Asia and the South Pacific Islands), a Dry Tropics zone (plants from
South Africa, Madagascar and Mexico), the Californian Zone (plants from Southern
California, South Africa, Spain, Italy, the Middle East and Coastal Australia),
a birdhouse, a reptile house, a fishpond and two Adirondack chairs on a sandy
beach.
An
Oklahoma Botanical Garden Affiliate Garden.
North Central Oklahoma Cactus
Botanical Garden: 308 W. Main Street,
Covington, OK 73730 (405)864-7401 or
(405)864-7787.
- This garden displays over 1,500 varieties of rare and exotic
cacti and succulents with educational displays about plant care.
Northern Oklahoma College: 1220 East Grand Avenue,
P.O. Box 310,
Tonkawa,
OK 74653-0310 (580)628-6200 or (888)429-5715.
- This college made campus
beautification a priority. Special features of the lovely grounds include a rose
garden, a mass planting of 150 redbuds and the yearly display of 4 to 6 thousand
annuals.
An
Oklahoma Botanical Garden Affiliate Garden.
Oklahoma Botanical Garden and Arboretum: Oklahoma State University, 3425 W.
Virginia Street,
Stillwater, OK 74078-6027
(405)744-5414.
- The OBGA's mission is
the marketing and promotion of horticulture and landscape architecture in
Oklahoma. Its 100 headquarters garden (located just west of the OSU campus),
displays over 1000 species of herbaceous and woody plants in a Water Garden,
Rock Garden, Miniature Railroad Garden , Wildscape Garden , Japanese Tea Garden,
and 7 to 8 yearly theme gardens. Also on the site are the Oklahoma Gardening
Studio Gardens (3 acres including vegetable, herb, annual and perennial gardens,
a fruit orchard, formal and water gardens, a compost demonstration site and a
hobby greenhouse), a 37 acre turf research area, and a 60 acre nursery research
area. Centennial Grove (at the junction of Farm Road and Hall of Fame Avenue) is
an arboretum of labeled native and exotic trees suitable to Oklahoma.
Oklahoma Centennial Botanical Garden:
5323 W 31st St,
Tulsa, OK
(918)728-2707
- This garden offers the opportunity to see a
world-class botanical garden in the making. With 160 acres of
preserved ancient forest and prairie and 60 acres of gardens and
features. Gardens will include a Rose and Fragrance Garden,
Watercolor Garden, Demonstration Garden, American the Beautiful Garden,
Mexican Garden, Horticulture Therapy Garden and, of course, a Children's
Garden. A 7 acre lake will feature an Oriental Garden island.
Additional features include a 3 story tower and a tram.
Oklahoma City Zoological Park: 2101 NE
50th Street,
Oklahoma City, OK 73111 (405)424-3344.
- This beautifully landscaped
110 acre zoo is home to 2,300 animals from 600 species. Exhibits include the
Great EscApe (tropical rain forest with waterfalls, rocks, fallen trees, pools,
and thousands of lush plantings), Cat Forest/Lion Overlook (4.2 acres of natural
habitat with 4,000 plants including 1,000 bamboo plants), Aquaticus (1,500 sea
creatures), the Butterfly Garden (15,000 plants including a tall grass prairie
section), Island Life, and the Herpetarium.
Kirkpatrick Garden and Greenhouse: Science Museum Oklahoma, 2100 NE
52nd Street,
Oklahoma City, OK 73111 (405)427-5461 .
- These beautiful gardens
offer 300 varieties of trees, shrubs and groundcovers, a formal garden, a
contemporary garden, an herb garden, a terrace garden, a gardener's garden, a
rose garden, a Japanese meditation garden, an orchard, a vegetable and hobby
greenhouse, the Living Wall Gazebo (3000 begonias) and a Topiary Elephant.
Yearly displays include 1,400 square feet of annuals and 9,000 bulbs. The
greenhouse produces plants for the garden, and well as a tropical display area.
An
Oklahoma Botanical Garden Affiliate Garden.
Philbrook Museum of Art:
2727 South Rockford Road,
Tulsa, OK 74114 (918) 749-7941 or 800-324-7941.
- This fine museum offers a historical home, art collections and newly renovated
gardens. The 23 acres of grounds include formal and informal gardens, lawns, and
natural woods and features a classical tempietto (small temple) and, in a
gesture to the frontier heritage, a barbecue pit and campfire circle.
Tulsa Zoo: Mohawk Park, 6421 E. 36th St.
North,
Tulsa, OK 74115-2121 (918) 669-6600.
- This exciting 78 acre zoo is home to
1,500 animals representing 436 species. Exhibits include Cheek to Cheek with
Chimpanzees, Siamang Island, North American Living Museum (Southern Lowlands,
Eastern Forest, Southwest Desert and Arctic Tundra), Elephant Encounter,
Children's Zoo, Tropical American Rain Forest, Animal Kingdom, Sea Lions, Bear
and Cat Grottos, African Savanna, Aldabra Tortoises, and a Wildlife Habitat
Garden.
An
Oklahoma Botanical Garden Affiliate Garden
Woodward
Park: 21st and Peoria Avenue,
Tulsa, OK (918)596-7877.
- This 40-acre
municipal botanical park features a Victorian conservatory (with rotating floral
displays and permanent collections of cacti, succulents, and tropical plants), a
three-acre Arboretum (trees that thrive in the Tulsa area), the Municipal Rose
Garden (9,000 rose bushes representing 250 varieties), the Anne Hathaway Herb
Garden (culinary herbs), the Rock Garden (streams, pools, statuary, spring
bulbs, and annuals), the Iris Display Bed (200 plants), the Azalea Garden
(17,000 plants in a woodland setting), and the
Tulsa Garden Center which hosts
flower shows and sales throughout the year.
Will Rogers Park: 13th Street and McArthur Avenue,
McAlester, OK, 74502 (918)423-9300
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This 28 acre community sports park with a 1 miles jogging trail includes the McAlester Arboretum.
Will Rogers Park
and Garden Center: 3400 NW 36th Street at North Portland,
Oklahoma City, OK
73122 (405)943-0827.
- This 130 acre public park with recreational facilities
offers an outstanding rose garden, ponds and an arboretum displaying more than
60 species.
William Fremont Harn
Gardens: 313 NE 16th Street,
Oklahoma City, OK 73104 (405)235-4058.
- A
10-acre living history site and museum representing pioneer life during the
Territorial Period (1889-1907 of Oklahoma's history.
Woolaroc: 1925 Woolaroc Ranch Road,
Bartlesville, OK 74003 (918)336-0307.
- This site is the former retreat of the
founder of Phillips Petroleum who christened his retreat using a combination of
the words "woods", "lakes" and rocks". Attractions include a museum (art,
sculpture and artifacts), a Native American Heritage Center, a Petting Zoo, an
Oklahoma Oil History Area, the family lodge, the family Mausoleum, a Wildlife
Preserve (700 wild animals) and a Nature Trail.
An
Oklahoma Botanical Garden Affiliate Garden.