Allen Centennial Garden

Allen Centennial Gardens, the public garden and outdoor teaching garden for the Horticulture Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The highly visible site of the Allen Centennial Gardens reveals facets of an ever-changing panorama of beauty to the thousands of people who are on campus daily. The Gardens serve as an outdoor classroom, offering opportunities in plant identification and nomenclature as well as ecological and site management techniques for one of the few horticultural departments in Wisconsin's higher education system. The natural beauty of the 2.5-acre outdoor classroom provides many opportunities for students, public, green industry professionals and anyone else interested in horticulture, botany, landscape architecture and other aspects of gardening.