Humboldt Botanical Gardens, Botanical garden in Eureka, California.
Humboldt Botanical Gardens is a botanical garden in California with multiple planting areas and walking trails throughout the grounds. The gardens feature different landscape types including Mediterranean plants and species adapted to coastal conditions.
A small group of volunteers organized the garden in 1991, aiming to create an educational botanical garden for California's northern coast. Grading and site preparation began in August 2003, and the garden opened in 2006, with further sections completed by 2008. Its herbarium code with Botanic Gardens Conservation International is EUREK.
The Native Plant Garden displays plants that naturally grow in this region and shows visitors how the local vegetation changes across different areas. Walking through this section gives a sense of what the landscape looked like before development.
The grounds can be visited most days of the week and offer paths suitable for different fitness levels. Visitors should wear sturdy shoes and allow time for a leisurely walk through the property.
In October 2019 six 'Point Saint George' junipers were planted here, grown from a cliff population in Del Norte County that is now extinct in the wild. In March 2023 the garden became the northernmost safeguarding site for the state-listed endangered Vine Hill manzanita, native to Sebastopol in Sonoma County. A Wollemi pine, known only from fossils until 1994, also grows here.
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