Memphis, Tennessee has many attractions in store for its visitors. These include the Memphis Botanic Garden, a 96-acre (39 ha) botanical garden in Audubon Park in Memphis. The Memphis Garden is open to visitors every day. Various gardens invite you to take a walk in the Botanic Garden Memphis and to explore the grounds.

Many events are held at the Memphis Botanic Garden throughout the year such as: Daffodil Dash Race, The Family Egg Hunt and Mother’s Day Jazz Brunch. There are also regular plant sales, concerts and educational programs for young people and adults.

There’s even a family garden, the Big Backyard, which families love to visit. The Memphis Botanic Garden is also known for its Japanese Garden with the red bridge and the largest herb garden in the nation.

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History of the Memphis Botanic Garden in Tennessee

The individual gardens were gradually created in Audubon Park in Memphis from 1953 onwards. At the beginning, special collections of trees (arboretum) were planted, a magnolia garden and a rose garden were created in 1958.

In 1964 the Goldsmith Civic Garden Center, the Memphis Garden administration building, an auditorium and the Water Garden Room were completed.
The facility has been continuously expanded. In 1966, the gardens were officially named the Memphis Botanic Garden.

Gardens in Memphis at Audubon Park

Today the Botanic Garden Memphis has a total of 23 special gardens that offer an insight into the different families of plants, flowers and trees.

Anne Heard Stokes Butterfly Garden The
Anne Heard Stokes Butterfly Garden is a butterfly garden originally gifted by John Stokes to honor his wife Anne. Today, the butterfly garden features a variety of plants to attract butterflies.

Blue Star Memorial Marker and Garden
Created in 2007 at the corner of Park Avenue and Cherry Road, the Blue Star Memorial Marker Garden serves to honor all men and women who have served and continue to serve in the United States military. It was specially designed to showcase the Stars and Stripes on the American flag. This garden was sponsored by the Garden Tennessee Club and National Garden Club.

Cactus and Succulent Garden – the cactus garden
The cactus garden was created in early 2009 as a desert garden where cacti, succulents and plants that can grow in dry places thrive.

Conifer Collection – Conifer Collection
A collection of evergreen conifers from around the world can be found here at the Conifer Collection Garden in Memphis.

Daylily Circle
Around 500 different daylilies await you here. The Dylily Circle Garden was created in 1982 and was also named after its sponsor, The Thomas Trotter Daylily Garden, who donated the daylilies to the Memphis Botanic Garden.

Four Seasons Garden
At the Four Seasons Garden in Memphis , you’ll find beds filled with a variety of annuals and tropical plants. At the fountains you will find white hydrangeas and grasses.

Herb Garden – herb garden
The new herb garden Herb Garden has been there since October 2011, it shows the different herbal traditions from all over the world. A total of around 750 plant species grow here. The visitor is shown the various uses of herbs. The herbs are also sorted by continent.

Holly Collection
The Memphis Botanic Garden’s Holly Collection is an extensively decorated garden featuring Barbara Taylor’s personal collection. Here you will find a collection of all the important types and varieties that are also commercially available.

Hosta Trail – Funkien Weg
Hostas (hostas), also known as heart leaf lilies, are perennial herbaceous plants, and there are many different varieties. You can see some here on the Hosta Trail.

Hyde & Seek
Prehistoric Plant Trail Located just beyond Wildwoodland, the Hyde & Seek Prehistoric Plant Trail is a garden trail and play area ideal for families. Among ferns, palm trees, magnolias and other plants are dinosaur figures, a cave and playground equipment.

Hydrangea Garden
There are about 35 types of hydrangeas in the garden. The hydrangea garden is divided into three areas in which a wide variety of hydrangeas are planted.

Japanese Garden of Tranquility (Seijaku-En)
In December 1965, the Japanese Garden – Garden of Tranquility, with its red bridge, was opened in the Memphis Botanic Garden. It is one of the most photographed places in the Memphis area. In 1989 it was commissioned by the well-known garden architect, Dr. Koichi Kawana redesigned.
A variety of Japanese and regional native plants, koi fish and Japanese symbolic elements await the visitor. It’s a popular wedding venue at the Memphis Botanic Garden.

Japanese Maple Grove – Japanese maple trees
About a dozen Japanese maple trees in bright colors like red, green or multicolored have grown here.

Little Garden Club Sensory Garden
The sensory garden greets visitors with the sounds of wind chimes and the murmur of fountains. Diverse selection of trees, shrubs, perennials, aquatic plants, roses, herbs and bulbs can be explored.

Madlinger Azalea Trail – Azalea Trail
This garden features colorful blooming azaleas of varying colors, from white, pink, coral to bright red and purple. They bloom from April to October.

Memphis Garden Club Sculpture Garden
The Sculpture Garden is located between the Visitor Center and the Goldsmith Room. He mixes sculptures with different plants.

Memphis Garden Club Water Garden
The Memphis Garden Club extends the Goldsmith Civic Garden Center with its water garden. Interesting aquatic plants and sculptures await you here.

Meyer/Mcdonald Dogwood Trail
The Memphis Botanic Garden offers a collection of diverse hornbeams, Korean and American species. These give an impressive picture when they bloom from the beginning of April.

Michie Magnolia Trail
This magnolia trail includes more than 300 trees throughout the garden. There are both evergreen magnolias and magnolias that lose their leaves in the fall.

Nana’s Garden/Charlotte Sawyer Daffodil Trail
Over 300,000 bright yellow, white, orange daffodils bloom here from late February through April.

Nature Photography Garden
For nature photographers, the garden, with its breathtaking water feature and diverse selection of 250 species of plants, offers an ideal space for capturing the beauty of plants through the camera eye.

Rick Pudwell Horticulture Center
The Rick Pudwell Horticulture Center consists of three greenhouses and a workroom for horticultural staff and volunteers. This complex shows the first steps towards environmental awareness and self-sufficiency. Solar panels generate energy. In the greenhouses you will find orchids, cacti and succulents.

Rose Garden
Since undergoing extensive renovation in 2001, the Rose Garden has been a major visitor attraction and a popular wedding setting. There are many varieties of roses here, sorted into three main types: modern, antique and climbing roses.

Tennessee Bicentennial Iris Garden
2,500 irises were donated in 1953, creating the Irish Garden. A beautifully manicured garden with circular flower beds and the statue of the goddess Iris in the center of a fountain.

WC Paul Arboretum
An arboretum was created here in 1957 in the gardens of Audubon Park. Many of the trees in this original arboretum area are well over 50 years old. Some rare and unique varieties are part of the collection.

Wildflower Woodland
This section showcases the native plants you will find walking through the native woodlands of the southeastern United States.

Opening hours & admission prices at the Memphis Botanic Garden

Admission is $8 for adults, $6.50 for seniors and $5 for children aged 2 and over. Children under 2 years old are admitted free.

The Memphis Botanical Garden is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. In winter, however, only from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The only days the Memphis Garden is closed are Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.

Driving into the Memphis Botanic Garden

The Memphis Botanic Garden is located in Audubon Park, in the heart of East Memphis at 750 Cherry Road. There is ample free parking next to the visitor center.

Address to the Memphis Botanic Garden attraction in Tennessee

Memphis Botanic Garden
750 Kirsch Road, Memphis
Tennessee, 38117
//www.memphisbotanicgarden.com