Huntington Botanical Gardens
Huntington Garden is located in the American city of San Marino. The garden contains more than 15,000 plant species from all over the world. Huntington Botanical Garden is divided into 15 separate gardens, built in the form of thematic compositions.: Children's, Japanese, Chinese, Desert, Subtropical gardens, Herb Gardens, Palm Trees, Camellias and many other compositions. These and many other Huntington Gardens attract a wide variety of people here.
There are guided tours in the gardens, some of which are specially designed for toddlers. So, the Huntington Kindergarten is specially designed in such a way as to activate the cognitive activity of the child and stimulate his knowledge of the surrounding world, including the flora of the surrounding world. Huntington Botanical Garden celebrated its centennial anniversary in 2003.
Hangtington was a railroad magnate, a collector of art, books, and plants. In 1903, Henry Huntington bought a ranch with citrus and walnut groves, orchards, and a small herd of cows and poultry. He appointed William Ertrich as the director of the gardens and instructed him to select plants for their filling. Ertrich turned for help to well-known botanists and plant collectors at that time. One of them was George Marsh, a collector and importer of rare plants from the East, the creator of the popular tea garden in Pasadena. Negotiations were conducted for several years, as a result of which Marsh kindly agreed to sell many exotic plants to Ertrich, as well as decorative elements and a house made of natural materials in the Japanese style, common in the 1800s. In 1912, all of them were taken to the Henry Huntington Estate, where 70 workers spent 5 months creating a Japanese garden here.
The construction of the Japanese Garden met all the fundamental laws of Japanese landscape design: there are all three whales, plants, rocks, and water. Moreover, there are actual zones where you can meditate while looking at natural stones, the prototype of the classic Japanese rock garden, and places where you can admire bonsai, the traditional art of growing miniature plants, and many others. Some areas of the garden are not intended for excursions, but for private and actually individual relaxation and reflection. For a large number of rose lovers, the Huntington Botanical Garden has a magnificent rose garden on one and a half hectares, which, like most Huntington gardens, has not only an aesthetic but also an educational function. Currently, there are about 15,000 plant species from all over the globe.
