Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum at the Univeristy of Michigan

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Arb Parking Tip There are often FREE street parking spaces available on Oswego St. near the Arb's Geddes Street entrance. Click here for a map.

The Gateway Garden of New World Plants and the Alexandra Hicks Herb Knot Garden at Matthaei offer sensory delights with their profusion of colors and scents.
Check out the bloom calendar.

Looking for a central location to hold a group meeting? How about catching up on some of your reading at a riverside bench? We have some of the University's best study spots.

Plant diversity is what this collection is all about. Revel in lush vegetation with great variation in plant and flower shape, size, color and texture. This is a teaching collection, with an emphasis on evolutionary novelties, co-evolutionary relationships and simply beautiful plants. Our oldest plants were acquired in 1910.

The tropical house is a great place to visit year round. Many plants are continuously flowering -- the orchid and bromeliad displays are changed each week. Others, such as the sausage tree (Kigelia pinnata) and tulip tree (Spathodea campanulata), flower in the summer. Come and learn about the insect-eating monkey cups (Nepenthes) and how they survive -- and don't miss our chocolate tree (Theobroma cacao) and learn about its rich history.

The Tropical House is in the Conservatory at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens site.

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