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The Huntington
Address: 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108
Tel: 626-405-2100
Hours: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday 12:00~4:30 p.m.
           Saturday, Sunday (Monday holiday) 10:30 a.m.~4:30 p.m.
           Closed Tuesday and major holidays
           Summer Hours: 10:30 a.m.~4:30 p.m. excluding Tuesday
Admission on Weekdays:
  $15 adults, $12 seniors (65+),
  $10 students (ages 12-18 or with full-time student I.D.),
  $6 youth (age 5-11), free for children under 5,
  Group rate $11 per person for groups of 15 or more.
Admission on weekends and Monday Holidays:
  $20 adults, $15 seniors, $10 students,
  $6 youth, free for children under 5,
  Group rate $14 per person for groups of 15 or more.

The Huntington is a private nonprofit collections-based research and educational institution, founded in 1919 by Henry E. Huntington. Huntington was an exceptional businessman who built a financial empire that included railroad companies, utilities, and real estate holdings in Southern California.

He was also a man of vision-with a special interest in books, art, and gardens. During his lifetime, he amassed the core of one of the finest research libraries in the world, established a significant art collection, and created an array of botanical gardens with plants from a geographic range spanning the globe.

Bontanical Gardens
Among the most remarkable is the Desert Garden, a large out-door grouping of mature cacti and other succulents.
It collected all the desert plants in the world.
Maybe because there is no desert in Taiwan, all the desert plants looked so weird and huge for me.

 
(↑↓ 這二棵樹本人很像異形)

Butter Tree, looked like ginger (薑).

YY scale.

It looked like hair on the plant.

Echinocactus grusonii
"The golden barrel grows quite slowly - many of the specimens here are over 75 years old. Though endangered in the wild, virtually all plants in cultivation, including ours, have been grown from seed."
Mexico

Most people come to America think that everything is huge here.
How huge is it? Think about the aloes (蘆薈) in Taiwan, and then compare with the aloes in the following picture.

Do you see YY?
Most aloes in the U.S. are so huge.

Opuntia Violacea
Var. Gosseliniana
Mexico

If let me choose the most terrible area, I would say desert ... the weather, the plants ...
I don't think I dare to stay in a desert at night.
After the Desert Garden, we went forward to the Lily pond.

The Lily pond looks not bad in those pictures ... but in fact, it is small and ...
The only five lilies (睡蓮) were all in the pictures.
Haha ... the sunshine and my camera were really good.