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Quarryhill Botanical Garden was almost lost during the Sonoma County Firestorms in October. In appreciation, entrance into the park is free til the end of 2017. Not the best time to visit since spring and summer bring the flowers, it was still a very pleasant walk yesterday. One can clearly see where the fires hit their fences and some of the plants near those edges.
Quarryhill Botanical Garden is a research botanical garden housing one of the largest collections of temperate Asian plants in North America. It is located near Glen Ellen in Sonoma Valley of Sonoma County California and is now open to the public. The garden is devoted to plants from temperate China, Japan and the Himalayas, with more than 90 percent grown from wild-collected, scientifically documented seed. The Arboretum is traced back to 1968, when Jane Davenport Jansen purchased 61 acres for vineyards. She started a garden on 20 acres of her property among the hillsides consisting of old rock quarries.
