Give Mom These Gardens
This Mother’s Day weekend, go garden-variety! These five botanical gardens are worth a high five for Mom.
Petal Paradise
Visit the Beautiful Descanso Gardens in Los Angeles
Tulips, lilacs, and daffodils—flower power is in full bloom at Descanso Gardens in La Cañada Flintridge. Sprawling across 150 acres surrounded by mountains, the gardens are putting on their best show right now.
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Visiting Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in Claremont
Sometimes the biggest secrets are, well, big. Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden is an 86-acre gem, hidden away in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in Claremont. In a way, it’s as big as all of California, given its dedication to the native plants (more than 2,000 species!
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Visiting Niguel Botanical Preserve in Orange County
Niguel Botanical Preserve features a variety of vegetation, both native and from the similar climates of Australia, Chile, South Africa. It's also got a cool little labyrinth.
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Walking the Self-Realization Fellowship in Encinitas
Peace, reflection, and rejuvenation are gifts that any mother will love, and all are in abundance at the Self-Realization Fellowship Temple in Encinitas, where serene gardens overlook a stunning stretch of SoCal coast. Calm flows over you from the moment you walk through the gate
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Hidden wildflower hikes on the Palos Verdes Peninsula
See wildflowers on the Palos Verdes Peninsula via a 2-mile hike through the hidden 51-acre oasis of George F. Canyon Preserve, and a 1.25-mile hike in neighboring Linden H. Chandler Preserve.
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