LEARN ABOUT AN OUTSTANDING BOTANICAL GARDEN

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On Tuesday, February 21, 2012, at the Live Oak Senior Center, 1777 Capitola Road, Santa Cruz, for the Monterey Bay Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society, Elaine Sedlack will be presenting a program on Rhododendrons and Other Plants at the University of California Botanical Garden.
This botanical garden features one of the most diverse plant collections in the United States, famous for its rare and endangered species.
The University of California Garden features areas devoted to indigenous plants of Australasia, Asia, California, Eastern North America, Mediterranean, Mexico and Central America, the
New World Desert, South Africa, and South America.
Areas are also dedicated to Chinese medicinal herbs, crops of the world, cycads and palms, a garden of old roses, and an herb garden.
There are greenhouses devoted to orchids, ferns, carnivorous plans, as well as other types of plants.
In the Asian area are numerous rhododendron species, some of which were very likely grown from seed collected by the plant hunter Joseph Rock.
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In our program, the horticulturist Elaine Sedlack, who has cared for the Asian collection for many years, will provide us with much information on this outstanding botanical garden.
Information on the University of California Botanical Garden can be found at http://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/
There is no charge for admission.

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