San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden
On my journey up Highway 101 from Santa Barbara I took advantage of an opportune break in the rain to swing by San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden. It was on my upended agenda in any case, though it was to be a stop on a day of nursery crawling.The weather forecast pretty much dictated that said nursery crawl was not to be. Since it looked like the rain would hold off for at least an hour, and I knew this garden was relatively small (this would be my first visit) I exited the highway and instructed Hal, my trusty GPS , to take us there. The garden is located in El Chorro Regional Park, in the hills of the central coast region of California. There is a robust plan for a 150 acre garden that displays the plant communities from Mediterranean climates world wide. Certainly this plan seems daunting, but I saw many signs in the garden as it exists today that seemed to point to significant progress. Just inside the entry was a be...