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Biltmore Gardens

Biltmore Gardens

Biltmore Gardens

One Lodge Street
Asheville, NC  

Hours: 9:00a - 5:00p

Biltmore Gardens offer a variety of beautiful plants. Celebrate Spring by visiting the Biltmore Gardens and admiring the beautiful display of tulips and other variety of flowers.

The Biltmore Conservatory was built in 1895 to provide the house and gardens with flowers. The Conservatory houses many tropical plants, exotic plants and palm trees. The Conservatory is divided into individual rooms for palms and orchids. There are over 250 varieties of plants. Also visit the Palm House which has a glass roof that rises 38 feet high to accommodate the towering palms. There is also Italian formal garden, walled garden, shrub and rose garden.

Biltmore Estates hosts a musical festival each year. Visit their website at Biltmore Concert Series for a program and schedule.

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North Carolina Arboretum

North Carolina Arboretum

North Carolina Arboretum

100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way
Asheville, NC  28806
(828) 665-2492
Hours:
November - March:  8:00a - 7:00p (gate closes at 6:00p)
April - October:  8:00a - 9:00p (gate closes at 8:00p)

Admission Fee: There is no admission fee, but there is a parking fee ($16.00 per vehicle as of March, 2020).

The North Carolina Arboretum covers 434 acres and is located in the Bent Creek Experimental Forest.The arboretum includes many hiking and bicycling trails. There is also a bonsai collection, a holly garden, and a stream garden. Its tree collection includes a set of Metasequoias planted in 1950, and now said to be the tallest in the south (over 100 feet in height).

Some of the gardens are:

  • Blue Ridge Quilt Garden - parterre reflecting quilt designs of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
  • Dickinson Holly Garden - a variety of American and non-native hollies.
  • French Broad River Watershed Training Center - Educational programs relating to streambanks and waterways, pasture management, stormwater runoff, and erosion control.
  • Heritage Garden - a demonstration garden for plants used in traditional Western North Carolina crafts, including dye-making, basketry, paper-making, and broom-making.
  • National Native Azalea Repository - a streamside garden representing almost every azalea species native to the United States, with cultivated varieties and hybrids. This repository is part of the North American Plant Collections Consortium.
  • Plant Professional Landscape Garden (2 acres) - a study, training, and testing site that contains 250+ ornamental plants from the Certified Plant Professional exam.
  • Plants of Promise Garden - residential demonstration gardens that include plants being evaluated for the Southern Appalachian region.
  • Stream Garden - a formal setting of trees, shrubs and perennials.
  • Support Facility Perennial Border - perennial flowers.

The arboretum's bonsai collection has about 100 display specimens which include Asian trees, Japanese maple, Chinese elm.

 

Driving Time and Distance
FromRouteDistanceTime
Asheville I-240 W 11 Miles 20 Minutes

Brevard

 NC-280 W and NC-191 N 25 Miles 40 Minutes
Hendersonville I-26 W 19 Miles 30 Minutes
Hendersonville NC-191 N 18 Miles 33 Minutes

 

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