The Children’s Garden is a place for kids, particularly preschoolers, to touch, smell, grow and discover. In the Nature Playground kids can pretend to get trapped in a spider web, hop on mushroom shapes and whisper through talking tubes, and explore a play Hobbit House. The Learning Garden features plants that attract pollinators, birds and butterfly caterpillars; plants that appeal to the senses and vegetables to promote healthy food choices. Kids can use a watering can to give flowers a drink or just sit on a bench and watch for hummingbirds, bees or bugs. The area opened in April 2013 as part of the Native Plant Garden project.
The Sensory Garden was revitalized April 2025 with the help of the Virginia Living Museum’s Green Teens and Virginia Natural Gas to bring a new level of plant interaction to guests.
