Bissonnette Gardens
(formerly Waddington Gardens) and Cascading Waters: Oglebay Resort, Route 88
North,
Wheeling, WV 26003 (304)243-4000 or (800)624-6988.
- Sixteen acres of
gardens include a formal garden, an herb garden, a floral clock, terrace
gardens, a pergola, fountains, and seasonal floral displays.
Brooks Memorial Arboretum:
Watoga State Park, Star Route 1, Box 252,
Marlinton, WV 24954 (304)799-4087 or
(800)CALL WVA.
- This state park, formerly a CCC camp, features an arboretum
dedicated to plants native to the area.
C. Fred Edwards Conservatory and
Herb Gardens: Huntington Museum of Art, 2033 McCoy Road,
Huntington, WV
25701 (304)529-2701.
- This conservatory, the only one in West Virginia, features
tropical plants and seasonal floral displays. Two herb gardens, one a knot
garden and one an educational bed with culinary and medicinal herbs, also grace
the grounds.
Children's ABC Urban Garden: 11th and Main Streets,
Wheeling, WV, 26003, (304)905-0821.
- This garden is being built with help of surrounding businesses and the Girl Scouts
on a vacant lot in the middle of what was Fort Henry, the site if the last major battle of the Revolutionary War. 26 garden beds each represent a letter of the alphabet and a vegetable with that letter.
Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences of West Virginia: One Clay Square,
Charleston, WV 25301 (304)561-3570.
- This science and art museum, housed in two historic
homes, has a butterfly garden and an organic vegetable garden.
Core Arboretum:
Next to WVU Coliseum, P.O. Box 6045,
Morgantown, WV 26506 (304)293-5201 x2547.
- This 53 acre arboretum, a facility of West Virginia University, showcases
labeled native and exotic trees with over 300 kinds of woody plants and over 300
species of herbaceous plants. Forest communities include Monongahela River
floodplain forest (dominated by silver maples), mixed hardwood forest, and steep
hillside forest towering oaks.
Joan Stifel Corson
Butterfly and Wildflower Gardens:
Henry Stifel Schrader Environmental
Education Center (formerly the A. B. Brooks Environmental Education Center),
Oglebay Park,
Wheeling, WV 26003 (304)242-6855.
- These gardens, delicious to both
people and butterflies, include Butterfly Habitat Beds, a Wildflower Meadow
Garden and a Backyard Butterfly Garden Demonstration Area. Over 130 species of
butterflies visit.
Oglebay
Institute's Stifel Fine Arts Center: 1330 National Road,
Wheeling, WV 26003
(304)242-7700 (888)696-4283.
- Formerly the mansion of a major Wheeling industrial
family, the art center includes two galleries and formal gardens.
Prabhupada's Palace of Gold: Rd 1
NBU# 24,
Moundsville, WV 26041 (304) 843-1812.
- This fantastic structure of
marble, stained glass, teakwood, silver and gold leaf, a work of devotion to
Lord Krishna, is surrounded by fantastic gardens. Two levels of terraces with
mountain vistas showcase flower gardens and are bordered by waterways with more
than a hundred ornate fountains. Lotuses and water lilies fill the waterways,
complementing the flower motifs carved in stone. The Garden of Time displays
seasonal flowers and a large collection of roses surrounding a central fountain.
Ritter Park Rose Garden: Ritter Park, 1500 McCoy Road,
Huntington, WV 25728
(304)696-5954.
- This 70 acre multi-facility public park includes an All America
Rose Selections public garden.
Virginia Apartments Community Garden: 903 Market Street,
Wheeling, WV, 26003.
- This thriving community garden was built on the bones
of the second oldest home in Wheeling and incorporates 60% vegetable
garden, 20% formal flower garden, and 20% Bee, Bird and Butterfly
Garden,