| San Antonio Botanical Garden | |
| Type: | Botanical garden |
| Location: | 555 Funston Place San Antonio, Texas 78209 |
| Map: | Texas#USA |
| Map Label: | San Antonio Botanical Garden |
| Map Width: | 208 |
| Manager: | John Troy |
| Coords: | 29.4589°N -98.4571°W |
| Visitation Num: | 400,000[1] |
| Status: | Open year round |
The San Antonio Botanical Garden is a 39acres, non-profit botanical garden in San Antonio, Texas, United States, and the city's official botanical garden.
The Garden was first conceived in the 1940s by Mrs. R. R. Witt and Mrs. Joseph Murphy, who organized the San Antonio Garden Center. The two went on to develop a master plan for a city botanical center in the late 1960's. The site of the master plan was a former limestone quarry and waterworks area owned by the city. Voters approved $265,000 in bonds in 1970, which was the catalyst for funding the new gardens. Ground was broken for the new facilities on July 21, 1976, and the San Antonio Botanical Gardens officially opened to the public on May 3, 1980.
The Garden has had two major additions since opening. On February 29, 1988 the Emilio Ambasz designed Lucile Halsell Conservatory opened to the public and later that same year the historic Sullivan Carriage House was moved brick by brick to the Garden. Restoration of the building began in 1992 with formal dedication in 1995.In 2017 with support from its $40 million GROW capital campaign, the Garden expanded eight acres. Complementing the existing Garden through a new entrance experience, a culinary garden and outdoor kitchen for teaching health and wellness, and a family adventure garden promoting nature play.
Today the garden consists of the Lucile Halsell Conservatory, formal and display gardens, native gardens, an overlook tower and the Sullivan Carriage House:
Kumamoto En (roughly 85feet by 85 feet) is a Japanese garden reflecting styles and techniques from Kumamoto's 300-year-old Suizenji Park and from Katsura Detached Palace garden in Kyoto.