The beautiful environment provided by the blooming plants, shrubs, trees, pathways and benches throughout the Montgomery Botanical Gardens continues to offer a place of respite and peace for summer visitors. The many sturdy, hot-season varieties of plants display numerous colors. The large, historic trees deliver shade where needed and the benches and gliders deliver a place to rest as you stroll the pathways.

This is also the prime season to welcome pollinators into the gardens. The three Green Bridges Pollinator beds in the Southern Garden are there to welcome travelling bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, etc. to collect pollen and nectar on their journeys. They also include plants for some to deposit their eggs on desirable host plants. The Joe Pye Weed, Rudbeckia, Fennel, Cone Flowers, Canna Lilies, Crinum Lilies and many more offer their brightly colored heads up to receive the tiny visitors. The brilliant red of the Turk’s Cap is a bright beacon to attract these vital pollinators. Many colors of Salvia enhance the beauty of the gardens and also provide options for the pollinators. 

One of the most beneficial functions of a botanical garden is to provide Plant Identification signs that help visitors learn the names of plants they see and may like to have in their own gardens and landscapes. By reading the identification signs on each plant, they will know the names of plants they want to seek when they visit a nursery. Additionally, botanical gardens offer visitors a way to watch how plants grow and develop. Observing how large plants grow and how they are shaped as they grow helps visitors to determine if the plant is actually desirable for their own gardens.

So, visit your Montgomery Botanical Gardens soon and often and bring your family and friends. Enjoy the beauty and peace and learn about plants, even in our southern summer season.