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Northern California and the San Francisco Bay Area
Strybing Arboretum
This page is part of FriscoVista's Golden Gate Park project. For the official Strybing Arboretum website, click here.
Strybing San Francisco Botanical Garden is owned by the city of San Francisco. It occupies 55 acres within Golden Gate Park. It is operated by a public/private partnership between the nonprofit Strybing Arboretum Society and the San Francisco Recreation & Park Department, who bill it as a "living museum of plants."
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1. Entry Garden | 2. Library Courtyard | 3. Demonstration Gardens | 4. Rock Garden | 5. Takamine Gardens | 6. James Nobel Dwarf Conifer Garden | 7. New World Cloud Forest | 8. South Africa | 9. California Native Plants | 10. Redwood Nature Trail | 11. Southern and Southwestern Australia | 12. Eric Walther Succulent Garden | 13. Perennials from Mexico | 14. California | 15. Children's Garden | 16. Old World Cloud Forest | 17. Moon-Viewing Garden | 18. Jennie B. Zellerbach Garden of Perennials | 19. Chile | 20. New Zealand | 21. Eastern Australia | 22. Primitive Plant Garden | 23. Heidelberg Hill and Magnolias | 24. Biblical Garden | 25. Garden of Fragrance |
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Picea pungens, "thume" var. of Colorado Spruce (pineaceae family). Thirty-five to sixty feet, prefers partial shade or partial sun to full sun; soil should be moist to wet.
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Aeonium arboreum (Crassulaceae family, Canary Islands).
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The popular Wildfowl Pond, near the Friend Gate, leading to the Japanese Tea Garden, Asian Art Museum, Music Concourse, and California Academy of Sciences.
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