Redwoods shading the forest area of the garden.

The Regional Parks Botanic Garden is a 10-acre (4 hectare) botanical garden located in Tilden Regional Park in the Berkeley Hills, east of Berkeley, California, in the United States. It showcases California native plants, and is open to the public in daylight hours every day of the year except New Year's Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. The Garden was founded on January 1, 1940.

Specimens


Selected locations in and near Tilden Regional Park 
  •  Points of interest 
  •  Nearby parks and museums 

1
Tilden Little Farm
2
Tilden Park Merry-Go-Round
3
Inspiration Point
4
Lake Anza
5
Brazilian Room
6
Regional Parks Botanic Garden
7
Tilden Park Golf Course
8
Redwood Valley Railway
9
Blake Garden
10
Indian Rock Park
11
Berkeley Rose Garden
12
Lawrence Hall of Science
13
San Pablo Reservoir

Notable specimens include nearly all the state's conifers and oaks, a very good collection of wild lilacs (Ceanothus species), perhaps the most complete collection of California manzanitas anywhere, expanding collections of Californian native bunchgrasses and aquatics, and representatives of some 300 rare and endangered vascular taxa of California. The Garden is organized into sections, each representing a distinctive natural area in California:

Wyethia helenioides, gray mule's ears, in the garden
View of the Botanic Garden in November 2013

with subsections:

Collected plants include:

See also

References

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