Michigan State University Horticulture Gardens

Michigan State University Horticulture Gardens
Michigan State University campus
MSU Horticulture Garden's location on campus.
Michigan State University Garden
Use Botanical garden
Style N/A (Outdoors)
Erected 1982-1987
Location Bogue Road north of the Canadian National Railway
  42°43′17″N 84°28′25″W / 42.72128°N 84.47352°W / 42.72128; -84.47352Coordinates: 42°43′17″N 84°28′25″W / 42.72128°N 84.47352°W / 42.72128; -84.47352
Architect N/A
Number of species 5000
Website Official website

The Michigan State University Horticulture Gardens are horticultural gardens, with a landscape arboretum, located on Bogue Street on the Michigan State University campus in East Lansing, Michigan. The gardens are open to the public daily without charge.

The gardens surround the Plant and Soil Sciences Building and its teaching greenhouses. Main features are as follows:

  • Amien and Florence M. Carter Annual Garden - more than 1,000 varieties of annuals and helpful student workers!
  • Clarence E. Lewis Landscape Arboretum, founded in 1982 - a working arboretum for landscape students.
  • Frank's Nursery Rose Garden - over 700 rose cultivars.
  • Michigan 4-H Children’s Garden - 55 theme areas plus the Goon Squad.
  • Perennial Garden - 400 species suited for Michigan.

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References

  • Stanford, Linda O.; C. Kurt Dewhurst (2002). MSU Campus: Buildings, Places, Spaces. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. ISBN 0-87013-631-3. 

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