Georgeson Botanical Garden

August 22, 2011

University Relations

Marsha Munsell, a nutrition educator with UAF's Cooperative Extension Service, spends some volunteer time pulling weeds in the herb beds at Georgeson Botanical Garden.

The Georgeson Botanical Garden is a nationally recognized botanical garden and member of a national network of educational and research institutions dedicated to plant culture and conservation. There are many opportunities at the Georgeson to learn about plant culture in the Far North. The Georgeson is one of five botanical gardens in the nation to be a satellite test garden for the International Hardy Fern Foundation.

There is much to do, learn, and see at the garden. You can:

• Discover the diversity of native and introduced plants growing under the Midnight Sun


• Observe Alaska’s world-famous giant cabbages


• Learn cultivation techniques for some of the world’s hardiest plants


• Volunteer to pull a few giant dandelions!


• Book a day and time for your school class or daycare to tour the greenhouse or the garden


• Observe wildlife, birds, plants and insects that live in Alaska’s great interior


• Check out Alaska's newest agricultural industry — fresh cut peonies, an export market that started right here at the Georgeson and is now a statewide industry

For more information visit the Georgeson website or call 474-7222.