Norfolk Botanical Garden
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Norfolk Azalea Garden
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Canal in the Norfolk Botanical Garden
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| Location | 6700 Azalea Garden Rd., Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 36°54′10″N 76°12′22″W / 36.90278°N 76.20611°WCoordinates: 36°54′10″N 76°12′22″W / 36.90278°N 76.20611°W |
| Built | 1938 |
| Architect | City of Norfolk |
| Architectural style | Naturalistic Landscape |
| NRHP Reference # | 05000895 |
| VLR # | 122-1007 |
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| Added to NRHP | August 17, 2005 |
| Designated VLR | June 1, 2005 |
The Norfolk Botanical Garden (155 acres) is a botanical garden with arboretum located at 6700 Azalea Garden Road, Norfolk, Virginia.
April 1 - October 16
October 16 - April 30
Closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day.
Boat Tours:
Sunset Boat Tours:
The Norfolk Botanical Garden was first called the Norfolk Azalea Garden and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. The Norfolk Botanical Garden opened in 1938, when the city of Norfolk set aside a 75 acres (300,000 m2) of high, wooded ground plus 75 acres (300,000 m2) of reservoir for a city garden. In 1938, under a Works Progress Administration (WPA) grant, 200 African-American women and 20 men cleared the site. By March 1939, 4,000 azaleas, 2,000 rhododendrons, several thousand miscellaneous shrubs and trees, and 100 bushels of daffodils had been planted. In 1958 the Old Dominion Horticultural Society took over maintenance and changed the garden's name to Norfolk Botanical Garden. The garden did at one point contain 175 acres, but the neighboring Norfolk International Airport expanded and took away 20 acres. A number of gardens were added through the 1950s and 1960s, including a Japanese garden, desert plants garden, colonial garden and rose garden.
Today the grounds include numerous theme gardens, including:
The tram starts in front of Baker Hall Visitor Center, in the designated tram circle. The tram tour takes approximately 25 minutes, and has six stops around the garden. On weekdays the tram runs at the top of the hour, and on weekends the trams runs every half hour. The tram is driven by a Garden Guide that will explain the different gardens passed by during the tour.
This tour is an in depth view of the Bicentennial Rose Garden. It was completed in 1976 in honor of America's 200th birthday. Inside the 3.5 acres there are 3,000 individual rose bushes representing roughly 400 cultivars. It was previously one of 23 testing sites for the All-American Selection for roses (All American Rose Selection), and now it is a designated display site only.
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