Best Arboretum Fresno Near Me

4worldlovers: The Garden includes an extensive orchard of fruit trees, vines, and berries; beds of vegetables, herbs, perennials, small space gardening demonstrations, All-American Selections, a sun/shade garden, and a compost demonstration area in a setting designed by landscape designer, Robert Truxell. Also featured are specialty gardens for children and the physically challenged.


If you are visiting as a group or home school please contact our helpline for scheduling a tour of the garden, two weeks before the date you plan to visit.


Questions about the garden, please send an e-mail to mgfresno@ucanr.edu


Fresno Master Gardener office has no office hours or phone service at this time. When the temperatures are over 104 the Garden of the Sun will be closed on those days.


Through its Master Gardener Program the UC Cooperative Extension in Fresno County has developed a one acre ornamental and food production demonstration garden on the south end of the City of Fresno's Reedy Park, located at Winery and McKinley Avenue, Fresno, CA.


Come and enjoy the garden with the volunteers and learn about gardening in the Central Valley. Click to view


It might be tempting to pass on this one, sometimes dismissed as a weed, at the garden center, but that would be a mistake. Erigeron karvinskianus, or Santa Barbara Daisy, is a tough, almost carefree perennial and so useful in the garden. Delicate evergreen foliage stays under 12 inches tall, and plants are covered in small daisy-like flowers spring through fall. Flowers emerge white and fade to a pinkish lavender which adds to their interest. Grow in full sun to partial sun in well draining, even sandy or chalky soil. Erigeron is very drought tolerant once established but will look better with regular water in our hot summers. Hardy to about 20 degrees Fahrenheit. Plants spread by seed and rhizomatous roots but are easy to control; shear to the ground in late winter and reduce the clump as needed to control size. Deadheading is not required, but an occasional light shearing will encourage more flowering and reduce the spread of seed if that is a concern. Really no known pest or disease problems. Very attractive to pollinators. With its trailing habit, Erigeron is very useful as an edging or filler plant in the border, spilling over the edge of a container, cascading over a garden wall or boulder, or filling crevices in a patio or walkway. This is another UC Davis Arboretum All Star.


The Deutsch Cactus Garden is an extraordinary garden filled with over 250 different types of cactus and succulents. It is part of the Discovery Center next door to the Garden of the Sun. For more information and visiting hours go to the Discovery Center website.