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This list of botanical gardens and arboretums in Michigan is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the U.S. state of Michigan [1] [2] [3] Name Image
The Chicago Botanic Garden is a 385-acre (156 ha) botanical garden situated on nine islands in the northern Cook County Forest Preserves. It features 27 display gardens and five natural habitats including Mary Mix McDonald Woods, Barbara Brown Nature Reserve, Dixon Prairie, the Skokie River Corridor, and the Lakes and Shorelines.
Designed by noted Chicago architect Harry Weese, the Sterling Morton Library [18] was constructed in 1963 and named after Sterling Morton, son of founder Joy Morton. [19] It holds more than 30,000 books and magazines , as well as tens of thousands of non-book items including prints , original art, letters, photographs, landscape plans and drawings.
the Museum of Contemporary Art, The Second City comedy troupe, and the Chicago Shakespeare Theater in Near North Side; the Garfield Park Conservatory; and Pilsen's National Museum of Mexican Art. In addition, the Brookfield Zoo, Chicago Botanic Gardens, Block Museum of Art, Illinois Holocaust Museum and Morton Arboretum are in near suburbs.
Lurie Garden is a 2.5-acre (10,000 m 2) garden located at the southern end of Millennium Park in the Loop area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States.Designed by GGN (Gustafson Guthrie Nichol), Piet Oudolf, and Robert Israel, [3] it opened on July 16, 2004.
The W. J. Beal Botanical Garden is a 5-acre (2.0 ha) botanical garden located on the campus of Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, United States.It is claimed to be the oldest continually maintained university botanical garden in the United States and is open to the public without charge year-round during daylight hours.
Addison is a village in Lenawee County of the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 573 at the 2020 census . The village is located on the boundary between Rollin Township on the south and Woodstock Township on the north.
Hidden Lake Gardens colloquially known as Hidden Lake 755 acres (3.06 km 2), is a botanical garden and an arboretum operated by Michigan State University situated in the Irish Hills of southeast Michigan. The Gardens are known for their large collection of native and nonnative trees, shrubs and flowers.