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Desert Garden

Type: Picnics, Parks & Gardens | Downtown - Centre City
Tagged as: for nature lovers, kid-friendly

Our San Diego Local Expert says:

With their sculptural, and often anthropomorphological shapes, the various cacti give the garden impression of being on a fantasy planet. Just watch out for all those spines!

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Location:
Park Avenue and Village Place
Balboa Park
San Diego, CA 92101
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Desert Park is more than just another garden in the vast circumstance that is Balboa Park. Adjacent to the Inez Grant Parker Memorial Rose Garden and Park Blvd, this relatively small attraction offers visitors a place to relax and enjoy the over 1,300 plants that are housed here. With it's peak bloom during the tourist off-season (January - March), visitors here are often few and far between, making it a home for the spontaneous. Open free to the public year-round, sniff out some of the delectable and intriguing plants that cover this 2.5 acres of land.

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A trip to Balboa Park is not complete until you view the Desert Garden. Spanning two and one-half acres, this garden hosts a vast variety of plant life from around the world. In fact, the garden is home to over 1,300 varieties of them! Viewing the live plants at Desert Garden is second best only to an actual drive to experience natural surroundings in the Southwestern desert. Best of all, visits to this garden are free! Tours at 1p Tu-Su.
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