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Western Hills Garden
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We are a botanical garden in Occidental, California, founded as a rare plants nursery in 1959 and transformed into a horticultural destination with hundreds of rare specimens. Nonprofit and open to the public on weekends. Details: WesternHillsGarden.com.
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Today is the last day of our online auction to raise money to keep Western Hills Garden chugging along. Some amazing opportunities to stay here and wake up to the beauty of this place. Great hiking/biking/winetasting—15 minutes from the Russian River and 15 minutes from the ocean/Bodega beaches.
Online Auction 2025 by Western Hills Garden
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Before and after. September is a great time to come and visit Western Hills Garden. #flowers #bloomscrolling #botany #plantsky 🍂🥀🌱🌿
Resident artist/photographer Chrissy Huhn teaches a class here today on Lumen printing technique. (But not Severance!)
A 6-foot-4 visitor snaps pics of our Puya chilensis blooms. Gives a nice sense of their scale. Come see 'em while they're fresh. #flowers #bloomscrolling #botany #plantsky 🍂🥀🌱🌿
Our big ol' Puya chilensis is blooming, which doesn't happen very often! #flowers #bloomscrolling #botany #plantsky 🍂🥀🌱🌿
From rough stuff to good stuff: Western Hills #composting guru Dick Minor held a little demo this morning. #plantsky #gardens
Weeping deoder cedar, posing with a fine rhodendron.
Sigh, yes, sorry. Sometimes a bit lazy!
Love this time of year when so many species are starting to pop! #gardens #trees #plantsky 🍂🥀🌲🌳🌴🌱🌿
We love Cordyline australis (asparagaceae), or New Zealand cabbage tree. Seussian!
#gardens #trees #plantsky 🍂🥀🌲🌳🌴🌱🌿
Woo-hoooo! It is raining like the dickens here! #Plants will be very happy.
Hey gardeners, we'd be SO grateful if you would take a minute to nominate Western Hills Garden for Best of Sonoma County—relevant categories are "places to take kids" & "excursions." It would help bring us more visitors. And please share! #gardens #bloomscrolling #trees #flowers #plants 🍂🥀🌲🌳🌴🌱🌿
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Western Hills' horticulture advisory committee convened on a recent weekend to ponder the future of our collection. (That's co-owner Kent in the center) A great group of people with deep knowledge. It was a productive—and fun!—gathering of minds. #gardens #gardening #trees #flowers #plants 🍂🥀🌲🌳🌴🌱🌿
And the Oscar for best red tailed salamander goes to...this guy.
Night walk w Western Hills Horticultural Advisory Committee. Handheld black light reveals fluorescent flowers, snails, millipedes. So cool! #plantsky #gardens #gardening #nature
Camelia reticulata x Japonica aka Frank Hauser, though "Frank" is an odd way to address a flower. #plantsky #bloomscrolling