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The Gardens at Heather Farm 6 acres (24,000 m²) are a relatively new set of gardens located in Walnut Creek, California, USA, with sweeping view of Mount Diablo, and open to the public 7 days a week during daylight hours. Its gardens currently include: * Black Pine Garden (1989) - a small garden, including a bonsai Japanese black pine, and bonsai Colorado blue spruce. * Butterfly Garden (1996) - includes a hedge of escallonia with milkweed, passion vines, and Mexican sunflowers. * Children's Garden (1990) - grapes and goldflame honeysuckle. Much of the garden is planted each spring with edible produce. * Cowden Rose Garden (1991) - Gazebo with tea rose and floribunda roses, among a variety of rose displays. * Diablo Ascent Garden (1996). * Meadow Garden (1995) - rose hedge, background greenery, and conifers, with cape plumbago and pittosporum shrubs, and a hedge of Japanese rugosa shrub roses. * Mother's Garden (1996) - a bench set under Raywood Ash trees in an allée overlooking the Rose Garden, with creeping thyme, rhaphiolepis, violets, variegated society garlic, dwarf plumbago, sweet alyssum, a bearded iris from Bancroft Garden, statice, St John's wort, and artemisia. * Mural Garden (1990) - three African sumac trees, smoke tree, crape myrtles, a red horse chestnut tree, artemisia, verbena, strawberry trees, oleander, rockrose, berberis, verbena, gazania, thyme, coreopsis, and penstemon. * Native Plant Garden (1983). * Ree Display Grove (1995) - daffodils and twelve types of trees representing uncommon candidates for use in a home garden. * Riparian Garden (1992) - original valley oak trees, corkscrew leaf willows, birch, purpleleaf plum, liquidambar, vine maple, hemerocallis, buddleia, and ochna. * Rockery (1990) - an alpine garden, including miniature trees and conifers as well as perennials to emulate high elevation plantings. This garden contains plants suitable to Zone 14 that still appear alpine. * Sensory Garden - raised beds, water fountain and more than 75 fragrant herbs and plants interesting to touch. * Stroll Garden (1997). * Ward Garden (1989) - a lawn of tall fescue grass, with five ornamental cherry trees. * Water Conservation Garden (2004). * Waterfall Garden (2000) - eleven waterfalls, ponds, and two bridges. == See also == * List of botanical gardens in the United States 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gardens at Heather Farm」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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