Regional Parks Botanic Garden

The Regional Parks Botanic Garden is a beautiful 10-acre garden located in Tilden Regional Park in the Berkeley Hills, just east of Berkeley, California, in the United States. This garden shows off plants that grow naturally in California. It is a great place for nature lovers to visit.

The garden opened to the public on January 1, 1940, and has been popular ever since.

Redwoods shading the forest area of the garden.

Visitors can see many kinds of California plants and learn about why they are important to the local environment. Whether you like flowers, trees, or shrubs, the garden offers a quiet walk through nature in the Berkeley Hills.

Specimens

The Regional Parks Botanic Garden has many special plants from California. You can see almost every type of cone-bearing tree and oak tree in the state. There are also many beautiful wildflowers and shrubs, including some of the rarest plants in California.

The garden is organized to show plants from different parts of the state, such as Southern California, the Sierra Nevada, and the Channel Islands. You can walk through areas that look like forests, dunes, or even rain forests. There are many interesting plants to see, like silktassels, manzanitas, California poppies, and even cacti.

Wyethia helenioides, gray mule's ears, in the garden

Southern California
Shasta-Klamath
Valley-Foothill
Santa Lucia
Channel Islands
Sierran
Redwood
Sea Bluff
Pacific Rain Forest
Franciscan

View of the Botanic Garden in November 2013

with subsections:

Antioch Dunes
Coastal Dunes
Pond

Collected plants include:

Specimens

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