Michigan State University Horticulture Gardens

Michigan State University campus
Michigan State University Garden
Use	Botanical garden
Style	N/A (Outdoors)
Erected	1982-1987
Location	Bogue Road north of the Canadian National Railway
	42°43′17″N 84°28′25″W / 42.72128°N 84.47352°W / 42.72128; -84.47352Coordinates: 42°43′17″N 84°28′25″W / 42.72128°N 84.47352°W / 42.72128; -84.47352
Architect	N/A
Number of species	5000
Website	Official website

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The Michigan State University Horticulture Gardens are horticultural gardens, with a landscape arboretum, located on Bogue Street on the Michigan State University campus in East Lansing, Michigan. The gardens are open to the public daily without charge.

The gardens surround the Plant and Soil Sciences Building and its teaching greenhouses. Main features are as follows:

• Amien and Florence M. Carter Annual Garden - more than 1,000 varieties of annuals and helpful student workers!

• Clarence E. Lewis Landscape Arboretum, founded in 1982 - a working arboretum for landscape students.

• Frank's Nursery Rose Garden - over 700 rose cultivars.

• Michigan 4-H Children’s Garden - 55 theme areas plus the Goon Squad.

• Perennial Garden - 400 species suited for Michigan.

See also

• List of botanical gardens in the United States

References

• Stanford, Linda O.; C. Kurt Dewhurst (2002). MSU Campus: Buildings, Places, Spaces. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. ISBN 0-87013-631-3. 

External links

• MSU Gardens official site

Photos

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  The Perennial section.

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  The Rose Garden section.

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  Water fountain between the Gardens and the Plant Biology Lab.

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  Clarence E. Lewis Landscape Arboretum

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