The Best Botanic Garden in the US
Added 2024-11-14 23:41:13 +0000 UTCUC 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.
Comments
Great Botanic Garden💯...that is the real thing, approaching the habitat where native plants growth
Ana Rita
2024-11-15 19:01:37 +0000 UTCYou got me hooked on those buckthorns. I want one now😂 they look real similar to Daviesia and I can’t get my hands on any of those but I can definitely drive out to Berkeley and steal some seeds
emmanuel martinez
2024-11-15 01:43:09 +0000 UTCSan Francisco's Strybing is pretty good too but not as big and not as complete.
Bridget May
2024-11-14 23:56:16 +0000 UTC
