Regional Parks Botanic Garden



The Regional Parks Botanic Garden is a 10-acre (4 hectare) botanical garden located in Tilden Regional Park in the Berkeley Hills, east of Berkeley, California, in the United States. It showcases California native plants, and is open to the public. The garden was founded on January 1, 1940.

Specimens
Notable specimens include nearly all the state's conifers and oaks, a very good collection of wild lilacs (Ceanothus species), perhaps the most complete collection of California manzanitas anywhere, expanding collections of Californian native bunchgrasses and aquatics, and representatives of some 300 rare and endangered vascular taxa of California. The garden is organized into sections, each representing a distinctive natural area in California:


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

with subsections:


 * Antioch Dunes
 * Coastal Dunes
 * Pond

Collected plants include:


 * silktassels
 * manzanitas
 * osoberry
 * currants
 * barberries
 * Dutchman's pipe
 * fuchsia-flowered gooseberry
 * milkmaids
 * western leatherwood
 * scoliopus
 * redbud
 * California poppy
 * trilliums
 * shooting stars
 * wallflowers
 * fritillarias
 * fawn lilies
 * rock cress
 * pussy willows
 * California rose-bay or rhododendron
 * woolly blue curls
 * ninebark
 * mountain spiraea
 * summer holly
 * ceanothus
 * Chinese houses
 * irises
 * styrax
 * blazing star
 * monkeyflowers
 * fremontias
 * carpenteria
 * tidy tips
 * bush poppies
 * brodiaeas
 * mariposa tulips
 * cacti
 * clarkias
 * mock orange
 * western azalea
 * matilija poppy
 * fireweed
 * ocean spray
 * sweet shrub
 * columbines
 * penstemons
 * scarlet mimulus
 * buckwheats
 * evening primroses
 * gums
 * larkspur
 * lupines
 * California fuchsias
 * tarweeds
 * hibiscus
 * helianthus
 * snowberries
 * madrone
 * cottonwoods
 * deciduous oaks
 * dogwoods
 * hawthorn
 * willows
 * vine maple