South Texas Botanical Gardens & Nature Center
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Visit the South Texas Botanical Gardens & Nature Center
South Texas Botanical Gardens & Nature Center
The South Texas Botanical Gardens & Nature Center is one of Corpus Christi’s five major attractions, and a leading South Texas nature tourism destination.
Venture into the delightful 2600 square-foot screened Butterfly House, and new Bromeliad
Conservatory. Experience 2000 orchids, 300 breathtaking roses, quaint Hummingbird
Garden, imaginative Sensory Garden with fascinating artscape, Arid Garden and colorful
EarthKind Demonstration Trial Gardens. And during our eight warmer months, enjoy
the fragrant tropical Plumeria Garden with elevated viewing ramp. Your visits to
the Botanical Gardens & Nature Center in Corpus Christi will immerse you in serene
beauty, followed by an adventurous ‘walk on the wild side’ with 11 uniquely stunning
floral exhibits and gardens shouting color, followed by quiet trails and boardwalk
through identified native habitat and natural wetlands.
This 180-acre showcase on Oso Creek offers a unique and varied take on botanical
gardens-- beautiful new Exotic Parrots, or native wildlife in the new Reptiles in
Residents exhibit; artistic decorative water features, or vast natural wetlands;
majestic Rose Pavilion; or rustic Palapa Grande on scenic Gator Lake-- Corpus Christi’s
South Texas Botanical Gardens & Nature Center will impress you with its unusual approach
to environmental education through creative horticultural design, and fascinating
naturescape of natural wetlands and trails through native mesquite forest. Definitely
not your grandmother’s botanical garden!
The Botanical Gardens & Nature Center is a Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail site. Save some time for Nature’s Boutique in the Visitors Center, for unique gifts and ‘must haves’! We also host hundreds of school and adult tours, and rent our facilities to members for private parties.
Announcement from the Gardens
Open Daily
9am to 6pm
Adults Ages (13-59)- $6
Seniors/Military/Student ID- $5
Children Ages (5-12)- $3
Under Age (5)- Free
Members- Free
Visitors Center- Free
(Get Directions)
8545 South Staples
Corpus Christi TX. 78413
(361)852-2100
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Upcoming Events
May Events
Orchidology, National Public Gardens Day & Mother's Day Weekend. Flamingo Fandango
Educational & Garden Events
Exhibits at the South Texas Botanical Gardens
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Don Larkin Memorial Orchid Greenhouse
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Rose Garden
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Bates Rose Pavilion
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Plumeria Garden & Willoughby Viewing Platform
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Sensory Garden
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Tree Demonstration Garden
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Hummingbird Garden
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Arid Garden
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Earth Kind Demonstration Trial Gardens
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Anderson Bromeliad Conservatory Inside
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Butterfly House
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Bird & Butterfly Trail
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Birding Tower
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Palapa Grande on Gator Lake
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Wetland Awareness Boardwalk
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Oso Creek Loop Trail
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National Public Gardens Day,
Mother’s Day weekend
2 free admission offers on big weekend!
CORPUS CHRISTI—Instead of giving flowers for Mothers’ Day, bring Mom to the flowers! The South Texas Botanical Gardens & Nature Center celebrates Mothers’ Day weekend, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, May 11 through 13, with free admission all weekend for moms.
First, Friday, May 11, STBGNC and many other member gardens of the American Public Gardens Association (APGA) begins Mothers’ Day Weekend with National Public Gardens Day, but not limited to mothers! In Better Homes & Gardens May issue, an APGA/BHG advertisement directs readers to a website where they can print a coupon for two free admissions, for May 11 only, at listed participating member gardens.
Plus, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 11 through 13, at Visitors Center Check-in, all a mother needs to say is “Moms Love Flowers!”, and she gets in free! Sorry, the rest of the family pays general admission. But families can remedy that with this SPECIAL MOMS DAY DEAL-- Buy Mom a Single, Couple, Family or Grandparent membership that weekend, at 20% off-- for a year’s worth of free admission for the family, the 200-garden reciprocal admission program, Nature’s Boutique gift shop discount, a year’s free subscription to Better Homes & Gardens magazine, and 10 percent discount on non-sale merchandise at Turner’s Gardenland!
Nature Center offers four
Kids Summer Nature Studies sessions
CORPUS CHRISTI— The Botanical Gardens encompasses a unique mix of flower gardens, floral exhibits and plant collections; plus vast acreage of native habitat and natural wetlands, which children love to learn about and explore. This summer, let the South Texas Botanical Gardens & Nature Center Kids Summer Nature Studies gift your child with a visual love of nature; understanding of our natural resources; conservation of our fragile environment; plus positive insights into stewardship of native habitats, bird and wildlife, and natural wetlands of this unique South Texas ecosystem.
June Events
Orchidology, Kids Summer Camp
July Events
Orchidology, Kids Summer Camp, Flamingo Fandango
August Events
Orchidology, Flamingo Fandango
may pick up...‘naked’ flamingos NOW! BotanicalGardens’
Flamigo Fandango
opens July 1
