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These trees are a triple threat, said Los Angeles County Arboretum arborist Frank McDonough: beautiful bloomers in late summer with clouds of frilly flowers in purples, pinks, fuchsia and white ...
One of the Huntington Library's most botanically important gardens, the Desert Garden brought together a group of plants that were largely unknown and unappreciated in the early 1900s. Featuring a broad category of xerophytes (aridity-adapted plants), the Desert Garden grew to preeminence and remains today among the world's finest, with more ...
The Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, 127 acres (51.4 ha), is an arboretum, botanical garden, and historical site nestled into hills near the San Gabriel Mountains in Arcadia, California, United States. Open daily, it only closes on Christmas Day.
TPF operates a native plant nursery and education center focused on California natives. [2] Programs include the propagation of a wide range of species and cultivars of the California flora for use in the home landscape; collection and process of seeds from the wild for use in propagation, and courses in the horticulture, botany, and ecology of California native plants for the general public ...
Descanso Gardens is a 150-acre (61 ha) botanical garden located in La Cañada Flintridge, Los Angeles County, California. It sits on the northern edge of the San Rafael Hills. Stream with ducks at Camellia Forest. Descanso Gardens features a wide area, mostly forested, with artificial streams, ponds, and lawns.
In the 1870s, a few years after the founding of the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Eugene W. Hilgard, the university's first Dean of Agriculture, established a garden of plants on the land which is now Moffit Library. The University of California Botanical Garden was initially established in 1890 near Haviland Hall on the north side of ...
The garden, at 86 acres (35 ha), is the largest botanic garden in the state dedicated to California native plants. [1] It contains some 70,000 native Californian plants, representing 2,000 native species, hybrids and cultivars. The seed bank has embryos for the thousands of rare plants.
Of California's total plant population, 2,153 species, subspecies, and varieties are endemic and native to California alone, according to the 1993 Jepson Manual study. [4] This botanical diversity stems not only from the size of the state, but also its diverse topographies , climates, and soils (e.g. serpentine outcrops ).