St. George Village Botanical Garden
| St. George Village Botanical Garden | |
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 St. George Village Botanical Garden | |
  St. George Village Botanical Garden  St. George Village Botanical Garden | |
| Type | Botanical Garden |
| Location | 127 Estate St. George, Frederiksted, Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands |
| Coordinates | 17°42′55″N 64°49′51″W / 17.7152°N 64.8307°WCoordinates: 17°42′55″N 64°49′51″W / 17.7152°N 64.8307°W |
| Area | 16 acres (6.5 ha) |
The St. George Village Botanical Garden (16 acres) is a botanical garden with arboretum located at 127 Estate St. George, Frederiksted, Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. It is open daily except Christmas; an admission fee is charged.
The garden is set in and around the restored buildings and ruins of a 19th-century Danish sugarcane plantation. It contains over 1500 native and exotic species and varieties, including bromeliads, cactus and succulents, a conservation garden, a dry palmetum, heritage gardens, orchids, ornamental ferns, native arboretum (about 50 species), naturalized forest, rainforest (irrigated), and sansevieria collection.
It also contains a library of 500 volumes, housed in a post-emancipation workers' cottage restored in the early 1980s.
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