Posted in West Virginia
August 17, 2015
Here Are The 6 Most Beautiful Gardens You’ll Ever See In West Virginia
Want to see some beautiful flowers and plants? West Virginia has a several great flower gardens and arboretums that you should check out.
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The 16-acre of gardens are a recreation of the gardens that were at Oglebay in the early 1900s.
Featuring more than 3,000 roses, the rose garden at Ritter Park has been voted one the country's best rose gardens several times. It usually reaches full bloom from May til mid-June, according to the Greater Huntington Parks and Recreation District.
It opened in 1996 and is the state’s only plant conservatory. Among other things, it contains more than 200 types of orchids.
91 acres of old growth forest in Morgantown. It’s best known for its spring wildflowers. It's free and open to the public.
A 60-acre botanic garden and arboretum in Renicks Valley (Greenbrier County) that showcases more than 10,000 kinds of plants from all over the world.
Come see the beautiful flowers at the West Virginia Botanic Garden in Morgantown. It’s free and open to the public from dawn until dusk.
These are just some of the beautiful gardens in West Virginia. How many of these have you visited? Are there any others that you would add to the list?
