The Arboretum, and in fact the entire campus, were originally part of the larger property of pioneer Henry Cowell. The Arboretum site has remarkable climatic and topographic diversity and a wide variety of soils, since the underlying rocks include granite, schist,...

Villa Montalvo is an Italian Mediterranean style mansion nestled in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains, in Saratoga, California, United States. Villa Montalvo hosts an 137-acre (550,000 m2) arboretum and botanical garden. The arboretum is adjacent to the...

Hakone Estate and Gardens is a traditional Japanese garden in Saratoga, California, USA. It is the oldest Japanese and Asian residential garden in the Western Hemisphere. Notable features include a bamboo garden, a Zen garden, a strolling garden (the Hill and Pond...

The Japanese Friendship Garden is a walled section of Kelley Park in San Jose, California, USA. Dedicated in October 1965, it is patterned after Japan's famous Korakuen Garden in Okayama (one of San Jose's sister cities). The three main ponds were stocked with koi...

The San Jose Municipal Rose Garden (5.5 acres) is a rose garden located in San Jose, California. The garden was once a prune orchard, but was bought by San Jose in 1927 and is now exclusively devoted to roses. It features more than 3,500 rose shrubs representing 189...

The Arizona Cactus Garden (30,000 square feet or 2,800 square meters), also known as the Stanford Cactus Garden, is a botanical garden specializing in cactus and succulents.

The Stanford University Arboretum is an arboretum located on the grounds of Stanford University in Stanford, California. At present the arboretum contains over 350 species representing 150 genera and sixty families. The most common tree is the coast live oak,...

Located 30 miles south of San Francisco, Filoli is an historic site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and one of the finest remaining country estates of the early 20th century. Whether enjoying its beauty or pursuing its educational opportunities, we...

The San Mateo Arboretum is an arboretum in San Mateo, California containing old stands of pine, oak, cedar, and redwood planted over 100 years ago on the William Kohl property. The Arboretum is located in San Mateo's Central Park, which also has a Japanese garden...

The Mills College Botanic Garden, a "living laboratory" within the Biology Department, continues to grow in many ways! The garden's plant collection includes a number of California native plants, succulents, ferns and healing plants used mainly for lecture/lab...