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The organization, The Tasmanian Arboretum Inc., is an incorporated not for profit organization dedicated to operating a botanical institution for education, enjoyment of nature and research. It has a membership and is governed by an elected committee of up to 14. For taxation purposes the Tasmanian Arboretum is a Deductible Gift Recipient [2].
This list of botanical gardens and arboretums in California is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the U.S. state of California. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Name
Balboa Park Cactus Garden, taken 10/17//24 Overview of the southwestern perspective of the Grant Parker Memorial Rose Garden taken on October 17, 2024. There are multiple individual gardens throughout the park, including Alcazar Gardens, the Botanical Building and Reflecting Pool, the Cactus Garden, the Casa del Rey Moro Garden, the Inez Grant Parker Memorial Rose Garden, the Japanese ...
Pages in category "Botanical gardens in California" ... San Diego Botanic Garden; San Francisco Botanical Garden ... UCI Arboretum; University Arboretum at California ...
Built for the 1915–16 Panama–California Exposition, it remains one of the largest lath structures in the world. [1] Alfred D. Robinson (1867–1942), founder and president of the San Diego Floral Society, suggested the construction of a lath house as a feature of the Panama–California Exposition, which was to open in the City of San Diego ...
San Diego Botanic Garden (SDBG) is a botanical garden in Encinitas, California. It displays more than 5,000 plant species and varieties and has 15 gardens that represent different regions of the world, 12 demonstration gardens, and the largest public bamboo collection in North America. The garden sits on 37 acres (15 ha) of land.
The San Diego Natural History Museum is a museum in Balboa Park in San Diego, California. It was founded in 1874 as the San Diego Society of Natural History. It is the second oldest scientific institution west of the Mississippi and the oldest in Southern California. The present location of the museum was dedicated on January 14, 1933.
Six Flags Discovery Kingdom opened in 1968 as Marine World, a small zoo in Redwood City, California. [4] In the mid-1970s, it merged with a failing land-animal park called Africa USA and became Marine World Africa USA. [5] The park eventually moved to a new site in Vallejo, California, opening in 1986.