Santa Barbara Beauty
by Lynn Bauer
Title
Santa Barbara Beauty
Artist
Lynn Bauer
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
A gorgeous day in Santa Barbara, CA, as puffy white clouds drift by hillsides covered in spring wildflowers above the Santa Barbara Botanic Gardens.
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If you happened to stumble onto this photo, please check out my extensive line of wildflower photos from Texas, California, and a few other random places. I have galleries for the states, as well as a collective Wildflower Gallery.
The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden is a 78 acre botanical garden, containing over 1,000 species of rare and indigenous plants. It is located in Mission Canyon, Santa Barbara, California, USA.
The purpose of the Garden is to display California native plants in natural settings. There are approximately 9.2 km (5.7 mi) of hiking trails within the garden. Mission Creek flows through the premises, and includes a rock dam which was constructed in 1806 by Native Americans (mainly Canali� under the direction of the Spanish padres of the adjacent Mission Santa Barbara.
The Garden was founded in 1926 and designed by noted landscape architect Beatrix Farrand. By 1936 its focus had narrowed to plants native to the California Floristic Province (which includes a bit of southwestern Oregon and part of Baja California, as well as most of the state of California). The Garden became a Santa Barbara County Landmark in 1983 (the dam on Mission Creek was already designated as a State Historic Landmark).
On May 7, 2009, part of the Botanic Garden was destroyed in the Jesusita Fire, which burned much of the front country of the Santa Ynez Mountain range behind Santa Barbara. Among the buildings destroyed was the century-old Gane House, which contained the overstock for the garden library as well as many of the tools used for garden upkeep; the home of the garden's director; and a wooden deck overlooking the creek.
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March 7th, 2012
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