Dothan Area Botanical Gardens - Dothan, Alabama

Bobby

Very relaxing place to spend a morning or afternoon. The grounds are always beautiful and peaceful. Certain times of the year, they have a butterfly house which gets you up close to the different species. Very well maintained and the staff are great to work with. Nice shady walk and relaxing. Very children friendly and family oriented. Always wedding or special event photography going on.

Christopher Hutton

This is now one of my favorite places to go walking. I wish I could get a pass for daily walkthrough so I could keep my blood pressure down. It is the most beautiful, tranquil places on earth.

Leslie McConachie

Loved the garden. Even though it's hot, much shade is available. I enjoyed birding, loved all the bird boxes with labela, the azaleas, the roses, vegetable gardens, and small walking trails into native type habitats. Employees are very personable and professional. Nice gift store. Clean fascilities. The Butterfly House was amazing; it's great they use native butterflies. And the educational sineage is outstanding.

The only opens? for improvement, and I don't know how it can be solved, is less noise from mowers and blowers. Trying to listen to birds was impossible. Mowing didn't even seem necessary (grass not long), and it created a lot of dust. I realize, mowing has to be done, but maybe before the garden opens?

Kristina May

Absolutely beautiful areas with lots of 'side quest' walking trails off the paved walkways. The gardens feature different floral varieties, a butterfly house, a huge pond, a Chinese koi pond, a place to celebrate weddings, and a gift shop, among other things. My biggest recommendation is to bring yourself a can of bug repellant, maybe a hat, sunglasses, and cool clothes to wear if you go during the summer months. I'll definitely be back soon for fall season!

Jillian Harker

What a beautiful place! We walked the gardens and bought tickets to the butterfly exhibit also. We came in late April, so the weather was perfect - warm but not hot. The gardens are beautiful! I got so many ideas for additions to my own landscape. Both the lady who sold us our tickets and the lady running the butterfly exhibit were friendly and helpful. We learned a lot about flowers and vegetable gardening and butterflies. I would absolutely recommend for couples or families. It was truly a worthwhile experience.

Jeremy Bowling

I haven't been here in about 3 or 4 years so I thought I would stop back by and see what's changed. They've really done a lot with the place in a short amount of time, and it is definitely worth a visit on a cool spring day. The Rose garden is an excellent shape. As always. There is a nice little walking trail that has some Forest foliage along the way.

There is a wonderful little tropical exhibit that has all of these tropical plants and the pitcher plants are truly amazing and I just love looking at them, I just would love to bring an insect one time here and try to feed one of these plants. Personally for me this is my favorite part of the exhibit because on the left hand side they have those neat little carnivorous plants down the center. They have at least truly alien plants that I'm just not familiar with at all now the right hand side. They have these other hanging plants but not the carnivorous plants and they're all just so great to look at.

They have a new butterfly garden where there are many butterflies flying about. The Butterflies look beautiful and are fun to watch, however the staff hand out these little sugar Sponges on a stick to people to try and feed the butterflies. And I'm not quite sure why they do this because there are flowers everywhere in this little greenhouse and people will literally walk up to these butterflies and shove this stick into their face and force them onto the little sponges. I have been to butterfly gardens or conservatories all over the world and I have never once seen any place that will let you do this. In fact every other one that I've ever been to strongly discourages you from touching or interacting with the butterflies and you just have to hope that one lands on you naturally. But I want to say that I am by no means an expert. It just seems weird to me because these butterflies are eating from a flower and then someone comes up and shoves a giant sponge in their face, that's like if you were to eat Olive garden and someone just come up to you and shoved food right in your face, you really don't need it and it's got to be stressful for the butterfly. All of the above is especially true with the kids. The kids just don't understand how delicate butterflies are and I saw A few get stepped on or be bludgeoned to death by the sponge because kids just don't understand.

Anyway, sorry to go off on such a long-winded rant about that. I just want to say that the botanical gardens in Dothan are a truly wonderful place and it seems like every time I go they've added something to it or improved it in some way. The people that work here truly have a great love and passion for flowers and the outdoors. I would definitely recommend this to anybody looking for something cheap and relaxing to do.

Troy & Dawn Pair

Was visiting my sister in Alabama and went to the botanical gardens. Very pretty, had allot of areas to walk around and see lots of flowers and some huge spiders. Fun for the kids too.

Sonia Haiduc

Nice botanical garden, has a bit of everything. Could use more resources for better maintenance foe the plants and grounds, but it was a nice visit. They also have a small butterfly garden which was nice. And lots of roses in the rose garden.