Hello and welcome or welcome back to California Garden Goddess. Today we’re visiting the California Botanic Garden, a native California garden in Claremont, California. This California garden tour features the California Botanic Garden, which has a huge variety of California native plants spanning many of the different environments present in California. Visitors pay an admission of $10 to enter the garden, but the public is welcome to visit the attached native plant nursery for free. The nursery is closed during the summer but is open from fall through spring, when you should be planting native California plants. The expansive gardens have dozens of trails spread over 55 acres, so there’s always something new blooming in the garden. The California Botanic Garden only carries plants that are native to California, which are often the best plants to grow in California. When I visited on February 7 there were many sprouting wildflowers with buds, so I think the first California poppy I saw is a good sign that we may have another California superbloom this year. This channel features some of the most colourful plants that California has to offer, as well as what may be one of the rarest plants in North America.
The different environments of the California Botanic Garden include Channel Islands, Chaparral, Joshua Tree woodland, California fan palms, Pinyon Juniper woodland, Baja California, Coastal sage brush, Conifer Country, Bay Laurels and Oak woodland. During our visit, we spotted a gorgeous male Costa’s hummingbird and a California towhee. We also visited the following native plants flowering this February: Santa Catalina Island manzanita, Santa Cruz Cypress, Ceanothus ‘Dark Star’, Southern Chaparral Currant ‘Ortega Beauty’, Chaparral Currant ‘Dancing Tassels’, Sugar Bush, California poppy, Verbena ‘De la Mina’ and ‘Howard McMinn’ Manzanita.
We also visited one of the rarest trees in California and the United States, the Catalina Island Mountain Mahogany. There are fewer than 10 Catalina Island Mountain Mahogany trees left in the wild, and scientists at the California Botanic Garden are studying the tree to see if more can be propagated. The tree is favored by invasive animals such as sheep, goats, and pigs and is found in one single canyon on Santa Catalina Island off the coast of Southern California.
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