{"id":11765,"date":"2012-02-28T19:23:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T03:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/?p=11765"},"modified":"2012-02-28T19:23:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T03:23:32","slug":"37-acre-oxygen-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/02\/28\/37-acre-oxygen-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"37 Acre Oxygen Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdbgarden.org\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Botanical Garden<\/a> in Encinitas today with my mom and my sister. Over 3,000 plants and trees covering 37 acres produce more than enough oxygen to help energize a person to walk the four miles of trails through gardens with authentic species from around the world including Australia, Africa, Central America, Mexico, the Mediterranean, New Zealand and South America. There are also specialty areas such as the incredible bamboo garden (largest in the U.S.), desert gardens, herb garden, palm canyon, tropical rainforest (one of my favorite areas with a waterfall), and subtropical fruit garden. A two-story wooden outlook at the end of a plank walkway can be found on the north side of the property. You can kind of see the ocean from there but generally the view was a bit disappointing. Also worth at least a quick look are the Hamilton Children&#8217;s Garden with interactive play and learn areas for kids, and the Seeds of Wonder Children&#8217;s Garden with topiaries and a miniature railroad. Like most accomplished gardens, this one teaches as much as it presents.<\/p>\n<p><em>( f l o r a \u00a0 p i c s )<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visited the San Diego Botanical Garden in Encinitas today with my mom and my sister. Over 3,000 plants and trees covering 37 acres produce more than enough oxygen to help energize a person to walk the four miles of trails through gardens with authentic species from around the world including Australia, Africa, Central America, Mexico, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/02\/28\/37-acre-oxygen-factory\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[12,13,26],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1s2SN-33L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8172,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2011\/08\/18\/in-zoro-garden\/","url_meta":{"origin":11765,"position":0},"title":"In Zoro Garden","date":"August 18, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Enjoyed walking around with my mom inside Zoro Garden in Balboa Park. The sunken garden has been there since the 1935 California-Pacific International Exposition but was rededicated\u00a0in 2007\u00a0as a Butterfly Garden. ( f l o r a \u00a0 p i c s )","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Balboa Park&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8772,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2011\/09\/20\/walking-balboa-park\/","url_meta":{"origin":11765,"position":1},"title":"Walking Balboa Park","date":"September 20, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Had an hour between the Natural History Museum closing and the Wyatt Earp presentation this evening so I walked around Balboa Park taking pictures at the Museum of Man, the Alcazar Gardens and the \"Laguna de las Flores\" in front of the Botanical Building. There are more than 20,000 trees\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Balboa Park&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12869,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/05\/09\/rose-garden-reconnaissance\/","url_meta":{"origin":11765,"position":2},"title":"Rose Garden Reconnaissance","date":"May 9, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Drove down to Balboa Park to check out the Inez Grant Parker Memorial Rose Garden as a possible location for our family's surprise get together in a few days for a combined Mother's Day\/birthday party for my mom. What was supposed to be a quick recon and walk-through turned into\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Balboa Park&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14161,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2013\/05\/16\/planting-of-the-poppies\/","url_meta":{"origin":11765,"position":3},"title":"Planting Of The Poppies","date":"May 16, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Finally got around to planting the California Poppy seeds that I got from the San Diego Zoo when I visited during their annual Garden Fest...uh...festivities. I had to wet a cotton ball and drop it into a clear plastic bag. Then the zoo horticulturist scooped up a few seeds and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Flora&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/California-Poppy01-05-16-13-lo-res.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":14280,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2013\/06\/20\/california-poppy-update\/","url_meta":{"origin":11765,"position":4},"title":"California Poppy Update","date":"June 20, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Came time to transplant the California Poppies (I first wrote poopies by accident, thought it was funny) that I grew from seeds I got for free from a San Diego Zoo horticulturist during their annual Garden Fest celebration. Out of the five pots I planted seeds in only two actually\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Flora&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Cal-Poppy-Transfer01-06-20-13-lo-res.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11068,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/01\/19\/balboa-park-meanderings\/","url_meta":{"origin":11765,"position":5},"title":"Balboa Park Meanderings","date":"January 19, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Continued my great day with some strolling around most of Balboa Park, from the Natural History Museum, across to the San Diego History Center with its library and archives, over to the California Tower by the Museum of Man, through Alcazar Garden, down to the Organ Pavilion, over to the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Balboa Park&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11766,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11765\/revisions\/11766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}