Luther Burbank Home and Gardens, Botanical garden and historic landmark in Santa Rosa, United States.
Luther Burbank Home and Gardens is a botanical garden featuring a Greek Revival house, working greenhouses, and diverse plant collections across landscaped grounds in downtown Santa Rosa. The site includes structures and displays that show how the place functioned as both a residence and laboratory.
Luther Burbank, a Massachusetts native, lived in this Greek Revival house from 1884 to 1906 and did most of his life's work on the grounds. He is credited with introducing more than 250 new varieties of fruit, including many plum varieties used in agriculture. A portion of the property was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1964. After his death in 1926, his widow Elizabeth returned to the house and lived there until 1977.
Luther Burbank lived in the Greek Revival house from 1884 to 1906, and after his death in 1926 his widow Elizabeth returned and stayed until 1977. Most plants in the garden carry labels with both botanical and common names, so visitors can read the collection as they walk.
The park is open daily and entry to the grounds is free; guided tours of the house and gardens carry a fee. The grounds sit at the corner of Santa Rosa Avenue and Sonoma Avenue, and most plants are labeled with both botanical and common names, so a self-guided walk is easy to follow.
Burbank's grave lies under a Cedar of Lebanon near the greenhouse he built in 1889. The garden holds labeled collections of cactus, fruit trees, ornamental grasses, medicinal herbs, roses and walnuts, many of them his own introductions.
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