Natural History Wanderings

As it is getting late in the Bay Area wildflower season, I find myself  more often at botanic gardens.  As most water, their flowering seasons are  longer than those in the wild.  This motivated me to research and put together a list of botanic gardens and arboretum for California.

Botanic Gardens and Arboretum of California

Regional Park Botanic Garden, Tilden Park Berkeley: http://www.nativeplants.org/

University Of California Botanial Garden, Berkeley, CA: http://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/

San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum: http://www.sfbotanicalgarden.org/

University of California-Davis Arboretum: http://arboretum.ucdavis.edu/

University of California, Santa Cruz Arboretum: http://arboretum.ucsc.edu/

Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden: http://www.gardenbythesea.org/

Quarryhill  http://www.quarryhillbg.org/

Turtle Bay’s McConnell Arboretum & Botanical Gardens in Redding: http://www.turtlebay.org/gardens

Dunsmuir Botanical Gardens: http://www.dunsmuirbotanicalgardens.org/

click read more to see central and southern California botanic gardens and arboretum

San Luis Obisbo Botanical Garden: http://www.slobg.org/About_Us.htm

Arboretum at Fresno State: http://www.csufresno.edu/arboretum/

Clovis Botanical Garden: http://www.clovisbotanicalgarden.org/

Santa Barbara Botanic Garden: http://www.sbbg.org/index.cfm?

Descanso: http://www.descanso.com/

Fullerton Arboretum: http://fullertonarboretum.org/home.php

Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden: http://www.arboretum.org/

University of California Riverside Botanic Gardens: http://botanicgardens.ucr.edu/

Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden: http://www.rsabg.org/

Catalina Island Conservancy: http://www.catalinaconservancy.org/

South Coast in Palo Verdes:   http://www.southcoastbotanicgarden.org/

Huntington: http://www.huntington.org/

Golden West Native Garden in Huntington: http://www.goldenwestcollege.edu/garden/

Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden at UCLA: http://www.botgard.ucla.edu/

Palomar College Arboretum: http://www.palomar.edu/arboretum/

Leaning Pine Arboretum at Calpoly: http://www.leaningpinearboretum.calpoly.edu/

Moorten Botanical Gardens in Palm Springs: http://www.palmsprings.com/moorten/index.html

California State University at Northridge Botanic Garden: http://www.csun.edu/botanicgarden/

Conejo Valley Botanic Garden in Thousand Oaks: http://www.conejogarden.org/

San Diego Botanic Garden formerly Quail: http://www.qbgardens.org/

If you have any additions to the list please submit a comment and I will add them to the list.