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Quail Botanical Gardens is an Encinitas Beach Treasure
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Quail Botanical
Gardens in Encinitas, California is located 20 minutes north of San
Diego. Quail Botanical Gardens features over 35 acres of exhibits,
including rare bamboo groves, desert gardens, a tropical rainforest,
California native plants, Mediterranean climate landscapes, the Undersea
Succulent Garden, Landscaping for Fire Safety and a subtropical fruit
garden. Quail
Botanical Gardens and reflecting pools, cut
flower decorating class at Quail
Botanical Gardens, 230 Quail Gardens Drive, Encinitas,
Calif. 92024 Call: (760) 436-3036. qbgardens.com
In 2003, Quail
introduced the West Coast's first interactive children's garden, the
Seeds of Wonder. The garden includes Garden Railroad, a model train that
meanders through the garden.
What Quail Botanical
Gardens has succeeded in accomplishing it to become a community center
offering regularly-scheduled classes, special events, a gift store and
flower and plant sales. From a featured guitarist in the gardens to the
annual Garden of Lights in December or Easter Bunny hunt in the Spring,
Quail Botanical captures the interest of the local community, as well as
drawing tourists into its welcoming gates.
For the tourist
driving between San Francisco, Los Angeles or Disneyland (Anaheim) and
Southern California resort destination-San Diego, Quail Botanical
Gardens in Encinitas is a quick exit off the San Diego Freeway I-5.
Exhibits in the
Gardens or the Quail, as locals call it, include Native Plants, Native
People. An instructor of Ethnobotany at Kumeyaay Community College on
the Sycuan Reservation oversaw refurbishment of the Kumeyaay ‘ewaa hut. In the
Native Plants, Native People exhibit, life of the native inhabitants is
showcased. The huts were built not to live in but to temporarily protect
things and people. They weren’t really designed to be houses, as the
Kumeyaay had a migratory lifestyle. Tule (native bulrush) and willow
were harvested by QBG gardeners at Mira Costa College, Encinitas Ranch Golf Course and other locations for the exhibit.
The mission of Quail Botanical Gardens is to actively participate in the
conservation of rare, threatened and endangered plant species, to serve the
botanical and horticultural needs of San Diego County, and to exist as an
urban retreat. Quail Botanical Gardens is a 501 (C) (3) nonprofit
organization supported through earned revenues, gifts from individuals,
corporate sponsorships, and grants. For more information, visit qbgardens.com,
or call 760-435-3036
