Norfolk Botanical Gardens - Norfolk, Virginia

Address:Azalea Garden Road
Norfolk, Virginia
Tel: (757) 441-5830

Featured in the New York Times, Norfolk Botanical Gardens on Azalea Garden Road in Norfolk, is a pretty little paradise. Situated on 155 blooming acres, the Norfolk Botanical Gardens offers a wide range of gardens including a purity garden, a colorful two-acre butterfly garden, a winter garden, hydrangea garden, and a rhododendron glade, among countless others. The Japanese Garden was planted in honor of Norfolk's sister city, Moji, Japan, and features idyllic pond and bridge, as well as foliage native to the Land of the Rising Sun. The gardens also include the stunning Statuary Vista, an outdoor sculpture gallery with 11 dramatic seven-foot-tall statues of Rembrandt, DaVinci, and Rubens, among others, carved from Carrara marble between 1879 and 1884 by Sir Moses Ezekiel of Rome. Norfolk Botanical Gardens is open year-round.