CENTRAL GARDENS

The Central Gardens are part of the Wildflower Center’s original core, having been here since the current location opened in 1995. These sustainable gardens display many of the 650 species of native plants growing throughout the Center, using them to a variety of ends — from providing nectar for pollinators to creating riots of color — in gardens that conserve water and support wildlife.

What You’ll Find:

Gardens of different styles created to inspire home gardeners
The pollinator habitat garden and insectary
Water features supporting aquatic plants and wildlife

FEATURED GARDENS

Theme Gardens

Dry Creek Bed

West Texas Mountain Collection

Ann and O.J. Weber Pollinator Habitat Garden

Seed Silo Garden

Woodland Garden

Home Inspiration Gardens

Margaret & Eugene McDermott Learning Center

YOUR GARDEN, YOUR STYLE

Let our home inspiration gardens guide your native style, whatever it may be

Naturalistic Garden

Mimic the wild styling of nature with this plan

Plant List

Contemporary Garden

A garden with more modern style featuring steel

Plant List

Formal Garden

Native plants can work for the minimalists out there too

Plant List

Mixed Border Garden

Create a cottage garden perfect for Central Texas

Plant List

Sustainability

The Wildflower Center is a national leader in the sustainable construction, installation and maintenance of its landscapes and buildings. We are committed to creating beautiful gardens and landscapes that are also ecologically functional and conserve resources.

So, the Center is more than “just a pretty place.” We showcase the beauty of native plants, but equally important, one of our goals is to create landscapes that provide environmental benefits. In fact, the we led the development of the SITES® landscape rating system in collaboration with the U.S. Botanic Garden and the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Some notable sustainable features: