Butterfly Farms in Encinitas was established in 2012 out of concern for the decline of native butterflies. This nonprofit is dedicated to education, conservation and research of native pollinators. In their nursery, they raise and sell plants important to pollinators. In their laboratory, they raise native butterflies, some of which they release into their vivarium, …
There are two more weeks remaining at the World of Orchids exhibit at the San Diego Botanic Garden in Encinitas. As promised, our second trip offered a whole new set of orchids to observe (since they are periodically exchanged). The size of these orchids vary greatly, some the size of softballs, others the size of …
Deer Park Winery and Car Museum in Escondido has been in business since 1979. It is just 30 minutes away from our home base in Oceanside, but this is our first visit. In fact, before we bought our Groupon, we had never even heard of it before. I love finding something new in our own …
The World of Orchids is currently blossoming at the San Diego Botanic Garden. This is the second annual spring showcase and it is nothing to be missed. Private orchid collectors and various local orchid societies have lent their spectacular flowering plants to the Botanic Garden, exchanging them each Tuesday, in order to display different ones …
Just a few blocks south of Oceanside’s Welcome Bell and a few blocks east of the Pacific Ocean, 60,000 visitors a year enter through the doors of Oceanside’s official California Welcome Center. This year visitors are in for a real treat, the Welcome Center got an amazing facelift. It’s new, modern appearance focuses on Oceanside’s …
Moorten Botanical Garden is a privately owned arboretum just a stones throw away from Downtown Palm Springs. The desert botanical garden was created in 1938, and is still owned and operated by the Moorten family. The collection is made up of over 3,000 varieties of desert plants from all over the world. It even has …
Palm Springs will always be one of our favorite cities to visit, a city where you feel much further away from home than you actually are. You know a city is amazing when your favorite California journalist, Huell Howser, who has publicly explored the whole state, buys a home in the area. Downtown Palm Springs …
Anyone who has been to the Living Desert Zoo and Botanical Gardens can understand why the zoo was voted one of the top ten zoos in North America (in both categories, as best zoo and as best botanical garden). It is also an Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) accredited facility, so with our yearly …
Oceanside Unfiltered at the Oceanside Museum of Art is a photography exhibition that features local artists and their unfiltered perspective on Oceanside. The exhibit wasn’t the only local art on display, Wild7s Freestyle Krew performed, Deezy Hollow rapped, DJ Grande spun music, and the Members Only Car Club lined Pier View Way with classic lowriders …
San Diego Botanic Garden’s mission statement is “we garden to create, share, and apply plant wisdom to our world.” The gardens give people of all ages the opportunity to be impressed by mother nature, to walk amongst plants rarely seen in Southern California. Their hundreds of Botanic Garden gardeners are passionate about plants, evidenced by …