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MENDOCINO COAST BOTANICAL GARDENS

47 ACRES OF BOTANICAL TREASURES

Visiting a botanical garden is the last thing we acre by-the-sea gem in league with the many top
thought we’d do in Mendocino. But the striking dis- gardens we have visited around the world. No won-
play planting outside the garden entrance off scenic der it draws 86,000 visitors to stroll its extensive
Highway 1 proved too tempting to resist. We’re so pathways annually to marvel at floral fireworks from
glad we stopped to take in its vibrant fall colors on a rhododendrons (more than 120 species grow here)
brisk October day. in spring and saucer-sized dahlias summer into fall.
On the outskirts of Fort Bragg, the garden is a 47- The botanical garden’s site includes canyons, wet-

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