UC Berkeley Botanical Garden isn't designed like most botanic gardens, with a focus mostly on aesthetics and corny ideas about "beauty", with 90 of the same thing planted in uniform lines with even spacing so as to mimic 19th century Victorian ideas about how plants should be considered attractive. Instead, this garden is focused on re-creating the habitats and plant communities of the various geographic regions of the world with highlights on species richness, evolution and ecology. A trip to this garden is like being able to walk through a botany textbook, and the labeling of specimens is always top notch and contains the family the plant is from, too, completely ignoring the (often stupid and useless) common name.
So glad I never got banned from this place.
Ana Rita
2024-11-15 19:01:37 +0000 UTCemmanuel martinez
2024-11-15 01:43:09 +0000 UTCBridget May
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