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Zilker Botanical Garden…In the News!Butterfly visits Azaleas in bloom @ Zilker Botanical Garden

On Sunday, May 2, 2010, The New York Times travel section featured an article, “Welcoming Spring in Texas Tones” (by Jan Benzel).  One of her destinations was Zilker Botanical Garden.  She writes:

My sister, Nancy, who lives in Austin, was my host and guide for the rest of my wildflower tour of Austin and its surroundings.  In the city proper we visited Zilker Botanical Garden, a verdant respite with mini-gardens, almost like rooms, spilling from one to another over some 30 acres.  With a blacksmith’s shed and antique tools in one spot and fossilized dinosaur footsteps in another, it’s well suited to keep children content and interested while their parents stroll or sit.

Austin is a stop on a major butterfly migration byway; one section of Zilker is chockfull of butterfly bait, particularly plants like sedums, coneflowers and passionflowers.  Elsewhere there are waterfalls, streams with rock steps to skip across, and formal rose beds….

To read the full article, you can link to The New York Times online, http://www.travel.nytimes.com and search for “Welcoming Spring in Texas Tones.  Enjoy!

 

The Austin Area Garden Center is a non-profit organization established in 1955 to support Zilker Botanical Garden's mission to promote the education and love of gardening among people of all ages. Its projects support beautification of the gardens visited yearly by half a million people from around the world. Its education programs reach thousands of school children and adults every year. Read more about the Garden Center and its history to find out how it all started.

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click here for larger mapLocated in Zilker Park just south of Town Lake and east of MoPac (Loop 1), Zilker Botanical Garden is easy to reach from both MoPac and I-35. Click on the map at right for a larger image. Driving directions:

FROM MOPAC (LOOP 1):
take the exit for FM 2244 / Rollingwood, following the signs for Zilker Park. Watch for the dark green Zilker Botanical Garden signs. The garden is on the left at 2220 Barton Springs Drive.

FROM INTERSTATE 35:
take the Riverside Drive exit and go west. At Barton Springs Drive, turn left and follow it along until you reach Zilker Botanical Garden on your right, just past Stratford Drive.

Parking

Parking for Zilker Botanical Garden is available in the Botanical Garden parking lot and off Stratford Drive below the MOPAC Bridge.

The Zilker Botanical Garden parking lot is for Garden patrons only. This lot is open during normal business hours. Any vehicles in the lot after closing will be locked in.

WEEKDAY parking in the Botanical Garden parking lot is FREE.

Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, for the period March 8th through Labor Day weekend, there is a $3 fee per car to park in the Zilker Botanical Garden parking lot. The fee is collected at the gate and the parking pass is valid for that day anywhere in Zilker park.

 
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