Huntington Botanical Gardens
Huntington Garden is located in the American city of San Marino. The garden contains more than 15,000 plant species from around 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, Trav, Palm, Camelius gardens and many other compositions. These and many other Huntington gardens attract a wide variety of people here.
The gardens conduct excursions, some of which are specifically designed for kids. So, Huntington Kindergarten is specially designed in such a way as to enhance the cognitive activity of the child and stimulate his knowledge of the world around him, including the flora of the world around him. Huntington Botanical Garden celebrated its centenary in 2003.
Hangtington was a railway tycoon, a collector of works of art, books and plants. In 1903, Henry Huntington bought a ranch with citrus and nut groves, and orchards, a small herd of cows and poultry. Appointing the director of the gardens, William Ertrich, and instructed him to take up the selection of plants to fill them. Ertrich turned for help to the then-famous botanists and plant collectors. 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 held for several years, as a result of which Marsh kindly agreed to sell a lot of exotic plants to Ertrich, as well as decorative elements and a house of natural materials in the Japanese style, distributed in the 1800s. In 1912, they were all taken to the estate of Henry Huntington, where 70 workers created the Japanese Garden here for 5 months.
The construction of the Japanese Garden met all the fundamental laws of Japanese landscape design: there are all three whales, and plants, and stones, and water. Moreover, there are zones where you can meditate, looking at natural stones, a prototype of the classic Japanese stone garden, and places where you can admire the bonsai 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 species of plants from all over the globe.
