The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden

Tour the living museum for California native plants

Betsy Collins , Director of Horticulture for The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden , walk us through the gardens and facility dedicated to the conservation of California native plants . There are more than 6,000 metal money of plants in California .

As a “ living museum ” the garden serves to cultivate and animate love for California native plants .

At the Santa Barbara Botanic Gardens , all plant are cautiously numbered , track , and memorialize . All plant disc are kept in a database .

Their Spring - flowering hayfield fill with Yellow Lupine is one of the most distinguishing feature of the garden . It is in the process of being converted to a wildflower meadow .

There is a large sequoia tree section of the garden . Redwoods are the tallest trees in the man , and are an iconic tree diagram along the west coast .

There is an herbarium room at the garden , which houses urge on plant specimens . This is where plant collections are document and kept . Each pressed plant specimen contains all of the plant feature required for designation . It also has a record of where the industrial plant came from .

There is also a seed bank building at the garden . perfect seeds are pull together , sift , and finally frozen in orderliness to keep them workable . When prepared in this way , seeds can last 100 - 150 eld .

One Deepfreeze houses extremely rarefied plants , and is kept under lock and Florida key to ensure they remain viable . This accumulation is called the preservation seed collection .

Another deep-freeze contains seeds from the exist collections at the botanic garden . These seeds are used when creating a unexampled plant showing , or if a specimen is damaged in the garden and call for to be replaced .

keep these seed is imperative to ensuring the continuation of each plant form .

The garden is settle in a mellow - danger flack geographical zone . In 2009 , mickle of the garden were burned in a wildfire , where about 75 % of the gardens hurt some level of flaming legal injury . The fact that the gardens have bounced back quickly designate how hardy and adaptable Californian flora is .

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