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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
The Gardens at the Springs Preserve, is an 8-acre (3.2 ha) desert botanical garden located in Las Vegas, Nevada. The gardens are currently located in the Las Vegas Springs Preserve at 333 S. Valley View Blvd. Designed to teach water conservation through water-efficient landscaping, the Gardens offers free classes, demonstrations and expert advice.
1% for Orchid Conservation (1%FOC) Orchid Societies and businesses that participate in 1% FOC commit to budget 1% or more of their net revenue towards in situ orchid conservation projects of their choice. [1] Living Orchid Collection (LOC) The primary purpose of LOC is to have an organized, virtual, living orchid species collection.
The original title of the bulletin was American Orchid Society Bulletin from 1932 to 1995. [note 2] [11] Volume 1, Issue 1 of The American Orchid Society Bulletin was published in June 1932. [12] It was styled, "A magazine devoted to the popularizing of orchids and their culture". [12] The first editor was David Lumsden. [12]
Las Virgenes Road is the truncated version of El Rancho de Nuestra la Reina de Las Virgenes (transl. the ranch of our Lady of the Virgins), also known as Rancho Las Vírgenes. [2] Malibu Canyon Road was named after Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit , in which Malibu, a poor Anglicisation of Humaliwo ( transl. place of the wild surf ), was the name ...
The Southern Nevada Zoological-Botanical Park, informally known as the Las Vegas Zoo, [3] was a 3-acre (1.2 ha), nonprofit zoo and botanical garden located in Las Vegas, Nevada that operated from 1981 to September 20, 2013. It was located northwest of the Las Vegas Strip, about 15 minutes away. [2]
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The Central Valley is a broad, elongated, flat valley that dominates the interior of California, United States. It is 40–60 mi (60–100 km) wide and runs approximately 450 mi (720 km) from north-northwest to south-southeast, inland from and parallel to the Pacific coast of the state .