New Entrance Garden at UC Botanical Garden: An Explosion of Arid Exotica

The new entry plantings at the UC Botanical Garden reflect the diversity of the garden while maintaining a cultural and aesthetic continuity with the existing arid-themed plantings around the adjoining Arid Greenhouse. The worldwide planting palette proved to be a unique mix of subtropical and arid climate plants we have come to call “arid-exotica.”

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