California State University Northridge Botanic Garden
The California State University Northridge Botanic Garden or CSUN Botanic Garden is located in the northern San Fernando Valley, in the southeast section ( 'quadrant' ) of the California State University, Northridge campus in the community of Northridge in Los Angeles, California.
The 1.5-acre (0.61 ha) site includes a 1-acre (0.40 ha) botanical garden and approximately .5-acre (0.20 ha) of nursery, shadehouse, and greenhouse zones. The botanic gardens were established shortly after the campus was established in 1959, as a Valley branch of California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA). It has grown through the administrations of succeeding San Fernando Valley State College and the present day CSUN Biology Department.[1]
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[edit] Collections
The Botanic Garden was originally planted exclusively with Californian native plants in 1959. Since then the garden has evolved and expanded into a diverse collection representing many different geographic regions and themes, with over 1,200 species and cultivars present.
The different sections of the garden contain: trees, palms, shrubs, 'subshrubs,' perennials, bulbs, cacti, succulents, herbs, annual plants and wildflowers, ground covers, butterfly and beneficial insect sustainers, edibles, and other plant types from; California and the other four Mediterranean climate plant regions of the world, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Europe, the Americas, and other continents and regions. An ethnobotanical and a contemporary water-conserving landscape are being developed.
[edit] Public activities
- The Botanic Garden is open to the public Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. It is closed weekends and university holidays, and occasionally during extreme weather.[2] The entrance is reached via parking structures off Nordhoff or Zelzah (depending on campus construction).[3]
- The CSUN Botanic Garden has short courses on a wide variety of garden topics by horticultural experts for the public.[4] It also sponsors 'CSUN-al Gardening', a series of four free gardening-themed classes a year.[5] The gardens also gives K-12 school tours.[6]
[edit] See also
- California Native Plant Society
- List of botanical gardens in the United States
- Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub
- Natural landscaping
- Sustainable landscaping
- Wildlife garden
- Xeriscaping
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.csun.edu/botanicgarden/about.html all access dates: 5/30/2010
- ^ http://www.csun.edu/botanicgarden/Hours.html
- ^ http://www.csun.edu/maps/cm1.html
- ^ http://www.csun.edu/botanicgarden/index.html
- ^ http://www.csun.edu/botanicgarden/algardening2009.html
- ^ http://www.csun.edu/botanicgarden/tours.html
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