Wake County is home to one of the largest + most diverse plant collections in the world — and it’s only open for eight weekends a year. Juniper Level Botanic Garden is a 10-acre educational, research, and display garden ~30 minutes south of downtown, and it’s open this weekend and next.
Juniper Level is home to 27,000 taxa of plants — compare that to JC Raulston Arboretum’s nearly 6,500 in the same acreage. Expect plenty of plants native to the area as well as exotic + rare plants, and unusual specimen trees. Plus, the garden has introduced 1,440 new plant species, cultivars, or hybrids to the horticulture field.
Juniper Level is open this Friday, Feb. 21 through Sunday, Feb. 23, and next Friday, Feb. 28, through Sunday, March 2. The botanic garden is also open for two weekends in May, July, and September — check the site for more details.
