Three gardens planned to close in California

Los Angeles County has plans to close three botanical gardens and to deed the remaining garden to a garden-associated organization.

Slated to close are the South Coast Botanic Garden, the Virginia Robinson Gardens and the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden.

Descanso Gardens are to be spared from the cuts, but are to be deeded to The Descanso Gardens Guild, Inc., if the county is satisfied that the gardens can be self-sufficient.

Links:

Descanso needs money to bloom from the Los Angeles Times (registration required on LA Times site to read).
Los Angeles County Parks and Rec - Preliminary Budget Curtailments press release from December 16, 2003 (in PDF format - Adobe Acrobat required to view)

Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 3:07 PM on December 18, 2003

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