Alice Keck Garden Photo Tour. This botanic garden in Santa Barbara is in the center of town, between Santa Barbara and Garden streets at MichelTorena Street.

Garden map, showing all the paths and pond; key to species on map: all specimens in park are listed;

Below are some photos of the park and the adjacent recreational park and playground:

The playground and park to the south:

• palm tree collection at entrance
• whale in playground
• dragon tree, the largest I've ever seen with unusual curlique branches, view 2

The botanic garden on the north:

• HUGE aloe tree
• Huge clump of Aloe Plicatila, flat tounge like aloe
• bunya-bunya tree, relative of Norfolk Island Palm
• don't climb this tree with recumbent branches on the ground
• plant pic 1 note: this is a varied collection of pix of plants at the garden
• plant pic 2
• plant pic 3
• plant pic 4
• plant pic 5
• plant pic 6
• plant pic 7

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