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San Diego Botanic Garden

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San Diego Botanic Garden
San Diego Botanic Garden
San Diego Botanic Garden
San Diego Botanic Garden
San Diego Botanic Garden
San Diego Botanic Garden
San Diego Botanic Garden
San Diego Botanic Garden
San Diego Botanic Garden
San Diego Botanic Garden
San Diego Botanic Garden
San Diego Botanic Garden
San Diego Botanic Garden
San Diego Botanic Garden
San Diego Botanic Garden
San Diego Botanic Garden
San Diego Botanic Garden
San Diego Botanic Garden
San Diego Botanic Garden
San Diego Botanic Garden
San Diego Botanic Garden
San Diego Botanic Garden
San Diego Botanic Garden
San Diego Botanic Garden
San Diego Botanic Garden
Phone:
+1 760-436-3036

Hours:
Sunday9am - 5pm
Monday9am - 5pm
Tuesday9am - 5pm
Wednesday9am - 5pm
Thursday9am - 5pm
Friday9am - 5pm
Saturday9am - 5pm


The San Diego Botanic Garden, formerly Quail Botanical Gardens, is a botanical garden in Encinitas, California, United States. At 37 acres , the garden includes rare bamboo groves , desert gardens, a tropical rainforest, California native plants, Mediterranean climate landscapes, and a subtropical fruit garden. The gardens are open to the public daily. The name of the facility was changed in 2009 to better reflect the garden's status as a regional attraction.Located 30 minutes north of San Diego in Encinitas, California, San Diego Botanic Garden features numerous exhibits, including rare bamboo groves, desert gardens, a tropical rainforest, California native plants, Mediterranean climate landscapes, succulent gardens, an herb garden, firesafe landscaping, a subtropical fruit garden, and native coastal sage natural areas. The Hamilton Children's Garden was opened in June 2011, the largest interactive children's garden on the West Coast. Until 1957 the gardens were the private estate of Ruth Baird Larabee, at which time she donated her house and grounds to the County of San Diego. The Quail Botanical Gardens Foundation was established in 1961. Today the gardens include nearly 4,000 varieties of tropical, subtropical, and California native plants. Collections include the climate-based gardens for the New World and Old World Desert, Coastal sage scrub, Sub-Tropical Fruit, a Pinetum, a Palm Canyon, as well as geographically organized gardens for Africa, Australia, Arid Madagascar Garden, Arid South America, the Canary Islands, Cape South Africa, Central America, the Himalayas, the Mediterranean, the Middle East, New Zealand, the Pan-Tropical Rainforest with a 60-foot waterfall, and the Pacific. Plant varieties include fuchsias, hibiscus, bamboos, proteas, cacti and succulents, as well as other drought-resistant plants including Australian shrubs. Herbs, water plants, wildflowers, perennials, brugmansias, cork oaks, and palms are also featured. Of particular interest is the maturing Cork Oak forest. Paths wind through a cluster of twisted and majestic trees whose bark has been used for making corks for thousands of years.
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