Summer Series: The Rose Garden

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The Huntington Botanical Gardens Summer Series

The Rose Garden

This Summer Series explores some of my favorites gardens. Today let’s discover the Rose Garden.

The 3 acres Rose Garden was created in 1908 to provide floral arrangements to the Huntington home.

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Summer Series: the Japanese Garden

The Huntington Botanical Gardens Summer Series

The Japanese Garden

The Tea House and Pagodas

The 9-acre Japanese Garden was created in 1912. At this time, some World fairs – like Philadelphia’s Fair in 1876 and Chicago’s Fair in 1893 – sold the Asia culture to the West. It became fashionable to have a Japanese Garden.

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Summer Series: Liu Fang Yuan, the Chinese Garden

The Huntington Botanical Gardens Summer Series

Liu Fang Yuan, the Chinese Garden

Waveless Boat (Bu Bo Xiao Ting)

The 3.5 acres soon to be 12 acres Chinese Garden was created in 2008. After its extension in 2020, it will be the largest Chinese-style gardens outside China (total cost estimated $53 million).

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