UC Santa Cruz Arboretum & Botanic Garden

More than 300 plant families, deriving from Mediterranean climates around the world, can be found at the 135 acre University of California Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz) Arboretum & Botanic Garden. Many of the species of plants growing withing the Garden are not otherwise available for study in American gardens. Visitors to the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum & Botanic Garden can take in the natives plants that grow locally in the California Garden, see plants that grow on the driest inhabited continent on earth in the Australian Garden, view the bio diversity hotspots in the New Zealand and South Africa Gardens, learn how plants have adapted to a severe lack of water in the Succulent Garden, and more.