Inspired by Nature
The Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden is in Arcadia, California, in the San Gabriel Valley. It is famous for its botanical garden collections of woodsy plants, trees and enchanting geographical gardens designed with plants indigenous to such places as “South America, the Mediterranean, South Africa, Australia, and Asiatic North America.”
The arboretum is also famously known for its hundreds of peacocks (peafowl), “descendants of original birds imported to the continental United States, from India, by Elias Jackson “Lucky” Baldwin in 1879.”
On one hand, the sights and scenes around the arboretum can be intellectually stimulating, and an amazingly serene place to sit and read a good book. And at the turn of the head, it can be surreal when you step into a familiar landscape where a famous movie or television program was filmed. Just to name a few, the Queen Anne Cottage in Fantasy Island; Tarzan and the Amazons adventure film; and portions of two Jurassic Park movies, and the list goes on.
