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Gardens of the World is a botanical garden in Thousand Oaks, California, situated directly across Thousand Oaks Boulevard from Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, within the downtown core of the city. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Established in 2001, the park was given to the city by the owners of a local travel agency.
In 2015, Atlas Obscura raised its first round of major funding, securing $2 million from a range of investors and angels including The New York Times. [6] In September 2016, the company published its first book, Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders written by Foer, Thuras, and Ella Morton under Workman Publishing ...
The Botanical Garden is a department of the National University of Forest Sciences (UNACIFOR). The botanical garden is part of the BGCI and presents works for the International Agenda for Conservation in Botanical Gardens. Its international recognition code as a botanical institution, as well as its herbarium acronym is LANCE. [1]
The garden was created in 1994, by Edna Harper from the Mission Hills neighborhood of the city. She started it after she saw a Cape honeysuckle that had moved into their yard from a neighbor's garden. Edna envisioned turning the plant's vines into elephants, inspired by the travels she and her husband, Alex, had gone on.
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. This distinguishes them from parks and pleasure gardens where plants, usually with showy flowers, are grown for public amenity only.
Currey was appointed as the garden's first rose curator and served in that capacity until his death in 1927. [3] Since 1940, the rose garden has been one of the official testing gardens for what is now called the All-America Rose Selections. [4] Originally, the garden occupied about a block, sandwiched between a playground and an elk corral. [1]
David A. Plotz [2] (born January 31, 1970) [3] is an American journalist and former CEO of Atlas Obscura, an online magazine devoted to discovery and exploration. [4] A writer with Slate since its inception in 1996, Plotz was the online magazine's editor from June 2008 until July 2014, [5] succeeding Jacob Weisberg. [6]
“It is hard to imagine any more compelling [title] than the half-hour spent wandering through some of the world's most enchanting rose gardens with one of the world's most enchanting women.” Two further episodes [4] premiered in January 1996, along with a re-release of the six-part series on Home & Garden Television. The series was shown ...