Seasonal Highlights
The
Arboretum offers a quiet refuge and a refreshing setting for recreation
at any time of the year. It also provides an opportunity to experience
the turning seasons through changing displays of flowers, fruits, seeds,
bark and foliage. Populations of birds, mammals, insects, and other fauna
vary rhythmically through the year. Look for these especially showy or
prominent features.
Early spring
- Forsythia
- Redbud
- Acacia
- California wild lilac
- Flowering plum, apricot, crabapple
- California poppy
Late spring
- Wildflowers (poppies, clarkias, godetias)
- Golden lupine
- Flannel bush
- Coralbells
- Salvias
- Roses
- Freetail bats breeding
Summer
- Texas ranger
- Cockspur coral tree
- Naked ladies
- Rain lily
- Pipevine swallowtail, Anise swallowtail, and monarch butterflies
- Swainson's hawk
- Jumping oak gall
Autumn
- Butterfly bush
- Autumn sage
- Mexican sage
- California fuchsia
- California wild grape
Winter
- California currants and gooseberries
- Manzanita
- Daphne
- Red and yellow-berried toyon
- Wood duck and merganser overwintering
