Oklahoma Gardens

 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.

This 10 acre estate offers a formal garden containing several hundred varieties of annuals and perennials and over 70 species of trees. An Oklahoma Botanical Garden Affiliate Garden.

 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 landscaped gardens and historical artifacts.  An Oklahoma Botanical Garden Affiliate Garden.

 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.

 Jo Allen Lowe Park: Price Street (West of Highway 75), Bartlesville, OK.

This 31 acre public park is home to an arboretum with 341 labeled trees representing 140 species and cultivars, plus 4 acres of native grasses. An Oklahoma Botanical Garden Affiliate Garden.

 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.

Another name for the Garrard Ardeneum, above.  An Oklahoma Botanical Garden Affiliate Garden.

 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 & 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 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.

 Omniplex Garden and Greenhouse: Kirkpatrick Center Museum Complex, 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 , Oklahoma 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 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.