Start your visit to Cornell Botanic Gardens at the Nevin Welcome Center—home to our visitor services staff, a gift shop with light refreshments, art displays, interpretive exhibits, restrooms, and a multipurpose room.
More about the Nevin Welcome CenterBe sure to visit these locations this season.
One of the highest points at Cornell Botanic Gardens and on campus, Newman Overlook provides a wondrous view of both the arboretum.
This slope is home to maples native to New York State.
Houston and Grossman ponds, located in the heart of the arboretum, were created in the early 1980’s to add an aquatic ecosystem to our collections.
There are specialty gardens and groupings of trees and shrubs within this beautiful 150-acre area.
Trees in the Flowering Tree Collection were selected for their beauty and small stature.
The majestic black walnut, butternut and heartnut trees, hickories and chestnuts here were planted in the early 1960s.
Meandering paths mown in the field provide visitors the chance to walk through a community of grasses, insects, and birds.
The garden along this trail features boggy areas and running water, and shows ways to make wet areas into attractive landscape features.
This intimately-scaled, hemlock-shaded, streamside garden displays moisture-loving plants that cannot be grown well elsewhere at Cornell Botanic Gardens.
This area's “garden rooms” show perennials, shrubs, and ornamental grasses can be used in inspiring ways.
As a large part of our oak collection, this collection of 50 different oak species, cultivars, and hybrids, is used to showcase oaks and contribute to oak research.
This steep-sided bowl is home to our Dorothy Hemp Hill Magnolia Collection as well as a yews, oaks, and elms.
These abstract, ten-ton concrete sculptures were created in the 1960s by Cornell undergraduate architecture students.
Houston and Grossman ponds, located in the heart of the arboretum, were created in the early 1980’s to add an aquatic ecosystem to our collections.
One of the highest points at Cornell Botanic Gardens and on campus, Newman Overlook provides a wondrous view of both the arboretum.
This collection is composed primarily of American beeches (Fagus grandiflora) and European beeches (Fagus sylvatica) that perform well in our area.
Showy flowers and fruit, rich fall colors, and ornamental bark make the Palmer-Kinne Dogwood Collection a fascinating garden to visit in all seasons.
This slope is home to maples native to New York State.
This collection of crabapples represents the best cultivars for this region.
This collection of hybrid oak trees shows both natural plant hybrids and horticultural specimens created artificially through breeding.
This beautifully designed garden showcases how a garden can be both beautiful and hard-working.
The Garden of Stones symbolize the tenacity of life, honoring those who died in the Holocaust and those who survived.
This collection consists of trees that are being researched for their use in urban environments, where site conditions are often poor.
Discover small “pocket gardens” around of the parking bays, trailheads, and benches throughout the Arboretum.
Start your visit to Cornell Botanic Gardens at the Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center.
Draw inspiration for container gardening from these arrangements of tropical plants.
This garden demonstrates use of trees and shrubs to shade tender perennials.
Explore perennial plants from North, Central and South America suited for full sun.
Find over 500 varieties of herbs throughout 17 theme beds in this renowned garden.
Explore a collection of flowering plants that hold symbolic meaning by cultures around the world.
This garden features spreading groundcovers good for stabilizing slopes.
Find plants with interesting color, texture, and shape, which add beauty to the winter landscape.
Explore over 100 varieties of rhododendrons and a rich mix of shrubs, trees, and herbaceous perennials on this small hill.
The garden was designed to represent alpine habitats such as scree, moraine and rock outcropping.
Perennials, grasses, and trees here filter runoff from the parking lot before it flows into Beebe Lake.
Explore heirloom and commercial varieties of food plants grown around the world and see plants growing in a high tunnel under predicted future climate conditions.
This area features most of our extensive conifer collection, including firs, pines, and spruces.
Enjoy the view from this overlook, which displays dwarf conifers, perennials, and small flowering trees.
This pollinator pathway was developed by four Cornell undergraduates to address pollinator decline in the Ithaca community.
Draw inspiration for using native plants in your gardens from formal plantings at the entrance pathways of this enchanting woodland
This small grove of pine trees features eight species.