Alaska Vacation Guide System

Alaska Gardens

The Alpine Forget-me-not is the state flower of Alaska.

The Alaska Botanical Garden is a 110-acre botanical garden located at 4601 Campbell Airstrip Road, Anchorage, Alaska.. The garden opened in 1993, is open year-round, and charges admission.

The garden's land consists mainly of spruce and birch forest, of which only about 10% is developed. Wildlife (moose and sometimes bears) are frequently seen within the garden itself. The garden currently includes:

• Over 1,100 species of perennials in the Upper and Lower Perennial Gardens (of which some 150 are native to Alaska)
• An herb garden
• A rock garden with over 350 types of alpine plants
• A wildflower walk
• The 1.1-mile Lowenfels Family Nature Trail

The Georgeson Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located at 117 West Tanana Drive on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus in Fairbanks, Alaska.. The garden is used for both research and demonstration, and is open to the public during daylight hours, May through September, for a fee. In the garden's role as a research facility, its staff test more than 1,000 trees, shrubs, and herbaceous perennials for hardiness each year. The garden's flowering plant collections include Altai violets, begonias, columbines, dahlias, delphinium, fern leaf peony, fernleaf tansy, fuchsias, impatiens, lilies, hardy shrub rose, sunflowers, and sweet peas. Other plants include ferns, herbs, and trial vegetables including corn and tomatoes.

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