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GARDENS
• Bamboo Garden – Foothill College, El Monte Rd. (adjacent to Parking Lot 6), Los Altos Hills; 408-255-4085; www.bamboogarden.org. Daily, sunrise-sunset. Two-acre garden features more than 70 varieties of bamboo. Free.
• Bamboo Giant – 5601 Freedom Blvd., Aptos; 831-687-0100; www.bamboogiant.com. Features more than 15 acres of planted bamboo, making it one of the largest displays of timber bamboo in North America.
• Center for Agroecology Farm & Alan Chadwick Garden – UCSC, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz; 831-459-3240; http://casfs.ucsc.edu. Two-acre garden with ornamental, annual and perennial food crops and a 25-acre farm. Year-round gardening workshops, classes and kids’ events.
• Elizabeth Gamble Garden – 1431 Waverly St., Palo Alto; 650-329-1356; www.gamblegarden.org. Daily, during daylight hours. Features a historic home and formal and demonstration gardens. Free.
• Friendship Garden – Harvey West Park, 326 Evergreen St., Santa Cruz; 831-420-5270; www.ci.santa-cruz.ca.us/pr/parksrec. The garden was developed for the enjoyment of people who have disabilities and the general public alike.
• Guadalupe Gardens – Guadalupe River Park & Gardens, Garden Center, 715 Spring St., San Jose; 408-298-7657; www.grpg.org. Features the Heritage Rose Garden, historic orchard, Courtyard Garden and Taylor Street rockscape.
• Hakone Garden – 21000 Big Basin Way, Saratoga; 408-741-4994; www.hakone.com. Weekdays, 10am-5pm and weekends, 11am-5pm. Koi pond and a reproduction of a 19th century Kyoto tea merchant’s home.
• Japanese Friendship Garden – Kelley Park, 1300 Senter Rd., San Jose; 408-277-4661; www.sjparks.org. Garden is patterned after Okayama’s world famous Korakuen Park. Free.
• San Jose Heritage Rose Garden – Guadalupe River Park & Gardens, Spring and Taylor Sts., San Jose; 408-298-7657; www.heritageroses.us. Daily, dawn-dusk. Almost 4,000 plants of more than 3,000 varieties of heritage, miniature and modern roses.
• San Jose Municipal Rose Garden – Naglee & Dana Aves., San Jose; 408-277-2757; www.sjparks.org. This 5.5-acre garden features more than 3,500 plantings and 189 varieties.
• Secret Gardens of Old Monterey – Monterey State Historic Park, 20 Custom House Plaza, Monterey; 831-649-7118; www.parks.ca.gov. Features a number of gardens, such as “California’s First Theatre Garden” and Memory Garden.
• UCSC Arboretum – UCSC Campus, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz; 831-427-2998; www.2.ucsc.edu/arboretum. Daily, 9am-5pm. The gardens’ collections are sectioned into their areas of origin, including Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and California.
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