Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden

Established in 1984, the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden encompasses some 60 acres of landscaped gardens, a children’s garden, visitor’s center, greenhouses, an education and library complex, and a glass-domed conservatory. Visitors of all ages enjoy access to a wide variety of educational resources in these living classrooms where they study home gardening, landscape design, botanical art, nature photography, climate change, early childhood nature education, urban gardening, and sustainable landscape design. The garden also feeds the needy through its Community Kitchen Garden in partnership with FeedMore, an umbrella organization for organizations who provide meals in community kitchens. A corps of dedicated volunteers (including high school students) help plant, cultivate, harvest, and deliver some 9,000 pounds of fresh nutritious food annually. In partnership with Henrico County, the gardens are also working on phase one of a comprehensive water management plan aimed at conserving and purifying water flowing through the gardens to the Chesapeake Bay.