Our Huntsville Botanical Garden Scarecrow, "Finding the Cache", was
such a big success that we decided to place a cache that is
available year around. "Something Growing On" is located near the
picnic tables adjacent to the parking lot. An entrance fee is not
necessary to access the cache. Please park in a parking spot and
take care while stepping into the landscaping to retrieve the
cache.
Hours of the garden vary throughout the year. May-September M-S:
9 a.m.-6 p.m. Thursday: 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday: 12-6 p.m.
October-April M-S: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday: 12-5 p.m. The Garden is
closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's
Eve and New Year's Day.
The outside gates usually open at 7:30am and so the cache is
available then but the gardens will not open until stated time.
Please do not hunt for cache during the evenings of the Galaxy of
Lights. Traffic is very heavy. Daytime hunting only!
The Huntsville Botanical Garden is a 112 acres botanical garden
located at 4747 Bob Wallace Avenue, Huntsville, Alabama, near the
U.S. Space & Rocket Center. It is open year-round, tickets
available in the gift shop.
The gardens include an aquatic, annual, day lily, fern, herb,
perennial, rose, and wildflower gardens, as well as a nature path
and collection of flowering dogwood trees. Highlights include:
Dogwood Trail - numerous flowering dogwood trees, including a
hundred year old dogwood transplanted to the site, along a forest
path. Daylily Garden - over 675 cultivars of daylilies. Fern Glade
- almost 170 species of ferns, Herb Garden - 14 theme gardens and a
cottage. Nature Trail. It is a Garden for all seasons.
The garden has a wonderful Children's Garden beside the
Butterfly House and Nature Center. The Children's area is a
delighful place to bring your children. It includes several mazes,
wishing well, playground and several water features so careful
where you step.
They have a great schedule of events, a gift shop and a small
deli for lunch, plant sales, lectures and more. Please visit their
website for more information. www.hsvbg.org
Congratulations to the Garden on their 20th Anniversary. Our
thanks goes to them for their support in allowing us to place this
cache. Please be respectful of the area so that we may continue to
keep our cache here. Thanks too for Gray Bat thinking up the great
container idea.
If you are traveling to our great city, welcome to Huntsville,
we hope you enjoy your visit.
Please sign the log. The cache has plenty of room for coins and
travel bugs. Please let us know if the cache needs attention. Thank
you for finding our cache. and please replace as you found or
better.
