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The Botanical Garden of San Francisco
If you think of San Francisco, surely the first thing that comes to mind are his very famous steep streets to lend their name to a series of 80, incidentally, one of the most marked my childhood. Image will also like the no less famous trams run through the streets. Certainly not what comes to your mind is that San Francisco is the largest botanical garden on the west coast of the United States.
Officially called San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum, has almost 23 hectares in which there are over 7,500 species and is in Golden Gate Park in the U.S. city. Founded in 1890, although its construction was not carried out due to lack of funds until 1926, when Helene Strybing sponsored him in his honor and gave him his name.
If you like to enjoy nature right in the city put on your tennis because you’ll find a few walks and, above all, enjoy a great time spending an entire day watching the various sections that divided the San Francisco Botanical Garden. In the area of ??so-called “Mediterranean Regions”, you can see many species of origin, such as Chile, South Africa, the Mediterranean or some native California.
In the area of the “temperate” plant gardens have several Asian or Australian. In the “Mountains of the tropics” you will see two forests, the Forest of fog and Central American species of the same name but with origins in Southeast Asia. On the other side you will find special species are hard to find elsewhere, with almost 10 gardens spread over all of them. All species can be kept secured thanks to the Mediterranean climate of the area, but having no greenhouse, many plants can not because it would not last.
If you visit you’ll pay $ 7 and children $ 5 or $ 2, depending on their age. If traveling with another family you can enter one or more adults and children for just $ 15, so that compensates a lot and the children will learn a great time while enjoying seeing a lot of animals. Residents in San Francisco and never pay others have free access on the second Tuesday of each month, on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year. Open every day between April 9-18 and October 10-17 and November and March. Of course not everything is looking, have a shop where you can buy many of the plants you’ve seen all day. No doubt a great attraction that should become a must if you travel to San Francisco.