AREA GARDENS ABOUND.Byline: - Nicole Sunkes Front and back yards in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. are so tiny and cramped that there's hardly space to plant your own. The good news is that Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, has huge spaces devoted to botanical gardens A botanical garden is a place where plants, especially ferns, conifers and flowering plants, are grown and displayed for the purposes of research, conservation, and education. . Many of the gardens feature other amenities as well, such as plant sales, kids' spaces and ponds. The Arboretum arboretum: see botanical garden. arboretum Place where trees, shrubs, and sometimes herbaceous plants are cultivated for scientific and educational purposes. An arboretum may be a collection in its own right or a part of a botanical garden. of Los Angeles County 301 N. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia. The Arboretum gardens include begonia begonia (bĭgōn`yə), any plant of the large genus Begonia and common name for the family Begoniaceae, mostly succulent perennial herbs of the American tropics cultivated elsewhere as bedding or pot plants and easily propagated by and tropical greenhouses, the Sunset demonstration garden, a rose garden, and separate world-regions gardens with native plants of Australia, South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Africa, North America, Asia, the tropics tropics, also called tropical zone or torrid zone, all the land and water of the earth situated between the Tropic of Cancer at lat. 23 1-2°N and the Tropic of Capricorn at lat. 23 1-2°S. and the Mediterranean region. Hours: 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily. The Arboretum has a historical section that includes the often-filmed Queen Anne Cottage, the Santa Anita Depot, the Hugo Reid Adobe and the Coach Barn. Closed Christmas Day. Admission: $7, $5 for seniors 62 and older and students with ID, $2.50 for children 5-12, free for kids 4 and under. Tram tour: $3. (626) 821-3222. www.arboretum.org. Conejo Valley Botanic Garden Thousand Oaks: Exit the Ventura Freeway (101) at Lynn Road, go north 0.7 miles to Gainsborough Road, turn right and continue 0.5 miles to the garden sign on the right. Follow the access road to the parking area, then follow the foot path to the entrance on the right, opposite the basketball courts. The 33-acre site includes a California native plant collection, bird habitat area, rare fruit orchard and tranquillity, desert, herb and butterfly gardens. Hours: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily, April-September, 7 a.m to 5 p.m. daily, October-March. Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, New Year's Day New Year's Day, among ancient peoples the first day of the year frequently corresponded to the vernal or autumnal equinox, or to the summer or winter solstice. In the Middle Ages it was celebrated among Christians usually on Mar. 25. , July 4th. Rare fruit orchard tour, 2 p.m. the first Sunday of the month from February to November. Plant sale 10 a.m. to noon the first Saturday of the month. Kid's adventure garden, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sundays. Free admission. (805) 494-7630. www.conejogarden.com. Descanso Gardens 1418 Descanso Drive, La Canada Flintridge. The gardens include a 20-acre camellia camellia (kəmēl`yə) [for G. J. Kamel, a Moravian Jesuit missionary], any plant of the genus Camellia in the tea family, evergreen shrubs or small trees native to Asia but now cultivated extensively in warm climates and in forest with 34,000 plants, five-acre rose garden with 31,000 plants, 137-plant clematis clematis (klĕm`ətĭs, kləmăt`ĭs), any plant of the large genus Clematis (sometimes subdivided into three or four genera), widely distributed herbs or vines of the family Ranunculaceae (buttercup family), many of them collection, 500-plant iris garden, nine-acre native plant garden, 1.5-acre lilac garden with 455 plants, 22-room Boddy House art gallery, Japanese Garden with tea house, and Under the Oaks Theater, an outdoor theater for summer performances. Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Closed Christmas Day. Admission: $7, $5 for seniors 62 and older and students with ID, $2 for children 5-12, free for members and children 4 and under. (818) 949-4200. www.descansogardens.org. Gardens of the World 2001 Thousand Oaks Blvd., Thousand Oaks. Gardens featured: a rose garden; a California garden set in an authentic-looking mission courtyard; English, French and Italian gardens; and a Japanese garden with a pagoda pagoda (pəgō`də), name given in the East to a variety of buildings of tower form that are usually part of a temple or monastery group and serve as shrines. and koi pond; all on 4.5 acres, with more than 1,000 varieties of plants and trees from around the world. Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Hours may be extended in summer. Free admission. (805) 557-1135. www.gardensoftheworld.info. Huntington Botanical Gardens 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino. Gardens featured: Japanese, children's, desert, rose, camellia, palm, subtropical sub·trop·i·cal adj. Of, relating to, or being the geographic areas adjacent to the Tropics. subtropical Adjective of the region lying between the tropics and temperate lands , jungle, lily ponds, herb and Australian. Hours: noon to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday; 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Free tours with paid admission, noon to 2 p.m. Tuesdays to Fridays, 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Closed on most holidays including Christmas and New Year's Day. Admission: $15, $12 seniors 65 and older, $10 for students with ID, $6 for children 5-11, free for members and children 4 and under. Free on the first Thursday of every month. (626) 405-2100. www.huntington.org. Japanese Gardens 6100 Woodley Ave., Van Nuys. Three traditional gardens on 6.5 acres: Zen meditation, tea house and a waterways garden. Hours: 10 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. Sundays; noon to 3:15 p.m. Monday through Thursday; closed Friday and Saturday. Guided tours at 9:30, 10 and 10:30 a.m. by reservation Monday through Thursday. Admission: $3, $2 for seniors and children under 10. For information, call between 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. (818) 756-8166. www.thejapanesegarden.com. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Robin Wills, 3, of Glendale peeks over a hedge in the children's Secret Garden maze at Descanso Gardens. David Sprague |
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