Weekend Getaway Ideas - Huntington Library, Art, Gardens

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Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

Address: 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108
Parking: free
Hours:
Monday 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday Closed
Wednesday 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Thursday 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Friday 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Saturday 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Sunday 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The Huntington is closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Day, and Independence Day.

Local Map - http://www.huntington.org/uploadedFiles/Files/PDFs/direcs_local.pdf

Map of Ground - http://www.huntington.org/uploadedFiles/Content/Visit/groundsmap.pdf

The Huntington Botanical Gardens

Covers 207 acres, of which approximately 120 are landscaped and open to visitors. More than 14,000 different varieties of plants are showcased in more than a dozen principal garden areas. Forty gardeners, a curatorial staff of seven, and more than 100 volunteers maintain the botanical collections.

• Desert Garden
• Chinese Garden
• Japanese Garden
• Jungle Garden
• Lily Ponds
• Rose Garden
• Australian Garden
• Camellia Garden
• Children’s Garden
• Herb Garden
• Palm Garden
• Shakespeare Garden
• Subtropical Garden

Japanese Garden

Completed in 1912, the nine-acre site, with its picture-postcard views of koi-filled ponds, distinctive moon bridge, and historic Japanese House, has attracted more than 20 million visitors since the institution opened to the public in 1928.

Desert Garden

One of the largest and oldest assemblages of cacti and other succulents in the world. The desert garden features more than 5,000 species of succulents and desert plants in sixty landscaped beds.
Nearly 100 years old, it has grown from a small area on the Raymond fault scarp when in 1907-1908 William Hertrich brought in plants from local nurseries, private residences, public parks, and from collection trips to the Southwest and Mexican deserts. Today the two dozen families of succulents and other arid adapted plants have developed into a 10-acre garden display, the Huntington’s most important conservation collection, a most important mission and challenge.

 

Lily Ponds

The first garden established in 1904 by William Hertrich had natural springs that emerged from rocks on the Raymond Hill Fault. The solution to an unsightly gully in the southeast corner of the gardens, the four acres that make up the lily ponds were a perfect place to build two large and three small ponds. The pond water, which is circulated and recycled, is home to turtles, bullfrogs, Japanese koi, aquatic plants, and an occasional mallard family.

 

Chinese Garden

Inspired by the centuries-old Chinese tradition of private gardens designed for scholarly pursuits, Liu Fang Yuan, or the Garden of Flowing Fragrance, combines the scenic beauty of nature with the expressiveness of literature to give deeper meaning to the landscape. A walk through its paths enriches the mind and spirit alike. The Huntington—with its renowned collections of art, rare books, manuscripts, and plants—was founded on this same philosophy by Henry E. Huntington in 1919.

 

Rose Garden

The three and a half acre rose garden was designed by Myron Hunt and first planted by William Hertrich as a display garden in 1908. In the 1970s, the garden was reorganized as a “collection garden” with more than 1,200 cultivars (approx 4,000 individual plants) arranged historically to trace the development of roses from ancient to modern times beginning with the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans.