Nature lovers were chirping last week when Huntsville Botanical Garden held a ribbon-cutting for the opening of the final phase of Tweetsville, a section of the Children’s Garden centered on birds and their habitats; when the pigeon post suddenly arrived with more good news! Huntsville Botanical Garden has been nominated by USA Today travel experts for the USA Today 10Best Readers’ Choice Travel Awards in the 10Best Botanical Garden category.
USA Today nominated 20 Botanical Gardens. The final 10Best will be decided in late May by open voting, and that is your opportunity!
At the time of post, Huntsville trails Vallarta Botanical Gardens in Mexico for the #1 spot, but that is easy to change. Vote once a day from different accounts, different computers and different devices! Spread the word and tell your friends and family – you have until May 22 to vote and bring Huntsville Botanical Garden up to first place!
Click here to bookmark the page and vote for the Huntsville Botanical Garden as often as you wish.
In the meantime, if you haven’t visited the Huntsville Botanical Gardens in a while due to the pandemic, you will soon see why the travel experts nominated it!
Huntsville’s 112-acre botanical garden features a seasonal open-aired butterfly house, a dogwood trail, a fern glade, herb gardens, and a nature trail with paths through an indigenous lowland forest.
The 18,000-square-foot Tweetsville expanded the Children’s Garden, the first phase of which opened in March last year. The final phase, which opened last week features an oversized bird nest and three tiny homes that demonstrate how guests can create their own bird-friendly backyard at home.
“Tweetsville is designed to inspire curiosity and encourage learning through play, no matter how old you are,” said Rebecca Turk, director of learning and public engagement at the Garden. “Through guided learning and free play, children and their caregivers can learn and discover together.”
Tweetsville can be enjoyed by guests of all ages and presents opportunities for expanding field trips, classes, youth camps and special events.
Visitors to Huntsville Botanical Garden will also see aquatic, annual, daylily, perennial, rose and wildflower gardens as part of their “community’s garden” in support of leadership roles in local sustainability issues.
Be sure to vote either before or after every visit to the Huntsville Botanical Garden.
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