Commercially, the name Lotusland (15 ha / 37 acres), also known as the Ganna Walska Lotusland Estate, is used for a non-profit botanical garden located in Montecito, California, USA. Walking tours are 1½ to 2 hours long. The gardens were created by Madame Ganna Walska (1887?-1984), an opera singer, who owned the property as a [...]
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, at 301 North Baldwin Avenue, Arcadia, California, USA. It is open daily during business hours, for a fee.
The site’s modern history began in 1875 when Elias Jackson [...]
Living Desert Zoo and Gardens is a desert botanical gardens and a zoo located at 47-900 Portola Avenue, Palm Desert, California. They are open daily with an admission fee of about $12 for adults (2007).
The gardens were established in 1970 as a 360 acre (1.46 km²) wilderness preserve by the Palm Springs Desert Museum. By [...]
The Leaning Pine Arboretum is located on five acres at the north end of the California Polytechnic State University campus in San Luis Obispo, California, USA.
Collections are arranged primarily by nativity and feature a diverse array of trees, shrubs, and other landscape plants appropriate for California’s Central Coast area. The gardens display hundreds of unique [...]
The Charles C. Jensen Botanical Gardens are botanical gardens located at 8520 Fair Oaks Boulevard, Carmichael, California. They are open during the daylight hours without charge. The gardens exhibit a variety of flora including camellias, dogwoods, azaleas, and rhododendrons.
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Hakone Gardens is a traditional Japanese garden in Saratoga, California, USA. It claims to be the oldest Japanese-style residential garden in the Western Hemisphere. Notable features include a bamboo garden, a Zen garden, a strolling garden (the Hill and Pond Garden), tea houses, and the Cultural Exchange Center, a replica of a 19th century Japanese [...]
The Conservatory of Flowers is a large botanical greenhouse in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, constructed in 1878. It houses an important collection of exotic plants. It is the oldest building in Golden Gate Park and the oldest municipal wooden conservatory remaining in the United States. It is also one of the first municipal conservatories [...]
The Fullerton Arboretum is a 10 ha (26 acre) botanical garden with a collection of plants from around the world, located on the northeast corner of the California State University, Fullerton campus in Fullerton, California, USA.
The Arboretum officially was created in 1976, and officially opened in 1979. A centerpiece of the Arboretum is the Heritage [...]
The Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden 1.3 acres (5,000 m²) is a Japanese garden located on the campus of California State University, Long Beach, in Long Beach, California, USA. It was dedicated in 1981. Ed Lovell, landscape master plan architect for the University, traveled to Japan and took inspiration from the Imperial Gardens in Tokyo [...]
Descanso Gardens located in La Cañada Flintridge, California is a 25 acre (101,000 m²) camellia forest.
At one time the property of the newspaper magnate E. Manchester Boddy (who owned the Los Angeles Daily News), he ran a commercial Camellia garden at this location (supplying prom boutonnières, for example) until he ceded the site to Los [...]
