McCrory Gardens and South Dakota Arboretum

McCrory Gardens has over 25 acres of formal display gardens and 45 acres of arboretum featuring hundreds of different flowers, trees, shrubs and grasses in harmonious settings to display, educate, and further the development of new varieties.

In addition new selections of trees and shrubs are trialed to test their adaptability to local growing conditions.

The gardens are funded primarily by donations, memberships, admission fees, special gifts, and endowment returns.

Ongoing research continues to provide new information to the scientific community and the public on the introduction, cultivation, and arrangement of native and domesticated plants.

The testing and evaluation of new woody plant selections and varieties in the climate of the northern Great Plains, initiated by Niels Ebbesen Hansen almost three-quarters of a century ago, remains an integral part of research.