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 [...]
The Conejo Valley Botanic Garden is located in Thousand Oaks, California, USA, in the Conejo Valley 39 miles west of Los Angeles. The Garden contains mostly native species, and displays over 60 types of salvia, of which at least 10 are California native species. The garden also features a rare fruit collection, currently composed of [...]
The Chavez Ravine Arboretum, in Elysian Park, just north of Dodger Stadium, at 929 Academy Road, Los Angeles, California, USA contains more than 1,000 varieties of trees from around the world, including what are believed to be the oldest and largest cape chestnut, kauri, and tipu trees in the United States. Admission to the arboretum [...]
Blake Garden (10.9 acres) is a botanical garden located at 70 Rincon Road in Kensington, California, United States. It is a teaching facility for the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning of the University of California, Berkeley. It is also the site of Blake House, the official residence of the President of the University [...]
The Botanical Garden of the Ozarks 86 acres (348,000 m²) is a new botanical garden now taking shape near Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA. The site is located at the Fayetteville-Springdale border on Crossover Road (Highway 265), and currently includes seasonal plantings in a small area, a wildflower meadow (1998), a lakeside hiking trail and a self-guided [...]
The Blue Springs Heritage Center 33 acres (13.4 hectares), formerly the Eureka Springs Gardens, is a historic tourist attraction containing native plants and hardwood trees in a setting of woodlands, meadows, and hillsides. It is located at Highway 62 West, five miles west of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, USA, and open daily to the public during [...]
Tohono Chul Park is a 49-acre (198,300 m2) nature preserve in Tucson, Arizona, United States.
Park History
In the 1920s, the entire northwest section of Tucson was considered ideal for growing frost-sensitive citrus and date palms. Maurice Reid owned property from Orange Grove Road to Ina Road and planted it with groves of citrus trees. He introduced [...]
