Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden:
By the Numbers
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden offers year-round beauty on a historic property with more than 50 acres of spectacular gardens, dining and shopping. More than a dozen themed gardens include a Conservatory, Children’s Garden, Rose Garden, Asian Valley and Cherry Tree Walk.
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden connects people to plants by inspiring communities to explore and conserve nature.
By the numbers 2023
Horticulture
- Total Accessions: 7,512
- Total Taxa/Unique types of plants: 5,523
- Total Genera: 914
- Total Families: 182
- Total Species: 1,862
- Total Cultivars: 3,661
- Total number of Individual Plants: 196,017
Learning
- On-site Adult Education programs and Garden tours: 251
- Participants in on-site Adult Education classes and Garden tours: 4,396
- Virtual Adult Education programs: 10
- Participants in virtual Adult Education programs: 479
- PreK-12 visitors participating in on-site education programs: 8,296
- Storytime in the Garden attendees: 4,438
- Library books circulated to members: 2,178
Community
- Guests through Museums for All: 9,083
- Pounds of fresh produce donated to FeedMore: 2,330 1/2 lbs
- Garden tickets provided to 158 need-based groups through Share the Garden: 1,386
- Seed library users: 279
Personnel
- Full-time equivalents: 103
- Volunteers: 430
- Volunteer hours worked: 38,895
- Equivalent full-time staff with volunteers: 20
Guests
- Annual visitation (admission, students, rental clients, shoppers, diners, etc.): 482,697
- Highest daily visitation (July 4, 2023): 6,332
- Dominion Energy GardenFest of Lights visitation (23-24): 141,965
- Highest visitation during Dominion Energy GardenFest of Lights (December 9, 2023): 6,045
Members
- Adult members: 28,155
- Member households: 16,368
- Museums for All member households: 1,141
Communications
- Website
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- Users: 1.12M
- New Users: 1.10M
- Page Views: 3.4M
- Enewsletter: 43.6K subscribers
- Social Media
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- Facebook: 82K followers
- Instagram: 53.3K followers
- X (formerly Twitter): 16.3K followers
- Pinterest: 3.2 million followers
- LinkedIn: 3K followers
- TikTok: 806 followers
Awards & Recognition
- Voted Best Botanical Garden Holiday Lights by USA Today (2023)
- Voted the second Best Botanical Garden Holiday Lights by USA Today (2022)
- Voted the second “Best Botanical Garden Holiday Lights” by USA Today. (2019)
- Voted the fourth “Best Botanical Garden” in the nation by USA Today. (2019)
- Voted one of the 8 most Instagram-worthy gardens in the U.S by Better Homes & Gardens (2019)
- Voted the fourth “Best Botanical Garden Holiday Lights” by USA Today. (2018)
- Voted the fourth “Most Beautiful Botanical Garden in the U.S.” by Condé Nast Traveler. (2017)
- Voted the fourth “Best Botanical Garden” in the nation by USA Today. (2016)
- One of the “top botanical gardens in the U.S. worth traveling for” by TripAdvisor’s FlipKey site. (2016)
- Voted the Second Best Public Garden in North America in the USA Today 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards (2014).
- Selected as a “Top 10 North American Gardens Worth Travelling For” by the Canadian Garden Tourism Council (2013)
- Recognized by the Travel Channel as one of the 12 “Best Botanical Gardens in the U.S.” (2013)
- Received the Institute of Museum and Library Services National Medal, the Nation’s Highest Honor for Museum and Library Service. (2011)
Explore Our Gardens
We have more than a dozen themed gardens