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The 3,000-square-foot (280 m 2) Desert Garden Conservatory serves The Huntington and public communities as a conservation facility, research resource and genetic diversity preserve. John N. Trager is the Desert Collection curator. There are an estimated 10,000 succulents worldwide, about 1,500 of them classified as cacti.
Grand Park Events Center: Westfield: 8,592 April 19, 1921 Long Center for the Performing Arts: Lafayette: 1,100 1930 La Porte Civic Auditorium: La Porte: 3,000 unknown Lawrenceburg Event Center Lawrenceburg: 3,000 1970 Bill Green Arena: Marion: 7,500 unknown IWU Chapel Auditorium: 3,600 Philippe Performing Arts Center: 1,100 Stardust Event ...
One of the Huntington Library's most botanically important gardens, the Desert Garden brought together a group of plants that were largely unknown and unappreciated in the early 1900s. Featuring a broad category of xerophytes (aridity-adapted plants), the Desert Garden grew to preeminence and remains today among the world's finest, with more ...
In 1892, Huntington relocated to San Francisco with his first wife, Mary Alice Prentice, and their four children. In 1902, he relocated from the financial and political center of Northern California, San Francisco, to the state's newer southern major metropolis, Los Angeles. In 1903, he purchased the 600-acre "San Marino Ranch" from James ...
Current events; Random article; ... Galster Wilderness Park Nature Center; ... Hermosa Beach Pier; Desert Garden Conservatory; Huntington Desert Garden; Huntington ...
Shipley Nature Center Huntington Beach: Orange: website, 18 acres, located within Huntington Beach Central Park, owned by the City, area natural and cultural history, native plants Shorebird Park Nature Center Berkeley: Alameda: website, operated by the City in a strawbale building, focus is marine life, conservation and education, 6 acres
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A traditional conservatory at the Horniman Museum in London, now used as a cafe. A modern implementation, Adelaide's Bicentennial Conservatory Conservatory interior in the Lednice–Valtice Cultural Landscape, Czech Republic. A conservatory is a building or room having glass or other transparent roofing and walls, used as a greenhouse or a ...