Merion Botanical Park

Merion Botanical Park
Merion Botanical Park
Location of Merion Botanical Park within Pennsylvania
Type	Municipal park Botanical garden
Location	Merion, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	39°59′42″N 75°15′03″W / 39.9949°N 75.2508°W / 39.9949; -75.2508
Area	13.5 acres (5.5 hectares)
Created	1944
Operated by	Botanical Society of Lower Merion
Open	Daily

The Merion Botanical Park (13.5 acres) is a city park and botanical garden located at 100 Merion Road, Merion, Pennsylvania, USA. It is open daily without charge. The park was created in 1944 by residents who formed the Botanical Society of Lower Merion, which continues to manage the Park. Among the founders was Laura Barnes, wife of art collector Albert C. Barnes. A renewal began in 2012 with "Botanical Bill" Earley and an "unlikely army of Montgomery County inmates, rabbinic students, truants, Boy Scouts, ROTC members, and Little Leaguers" clearing the park of 1,000 pounds of trash.^[1] It lies adjacent to the railway tracks, and now contains azaleas, dogwoods, magnolias, cut-leaf maples, redbuds, rhododendron and viburnum.

See also[]

• List of botanical gardens in the United States

References[]

External links[]

• Merion Botanical Park
• Merion Civic newsletter, Spring 2007^{[permanent dead link]}

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