{"id":308,"date":"2015-10-20T15:42:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T15:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/facilities\/?page_id=308"},"modified":"2025-03-18T11:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T18:20:17","slug":"cactus-garden","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/facilities\/cactus-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Cactus Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style30\" style=\"text-align: justify\">The Palomar Cactus &amp; Succulent Garden was established in 1964 on the Palomar College Campus. It exists on a two and one half acre site located north of Mission Rd.\u00a0and east of Comet Circle in San Marcos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style29\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span class=\"style22\">The PC&amp;SG has over 800 varieties of plants in two sections, one fenced and one un-fenced. The larger section (un-fenced) has an area of approximately 1.6 acres and is un-maintained. It has a typical California chaparral look with spotty plantings of native and non-native trees and shrubs, cactus and agaves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"style29\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span class=\"style22\">The smaller fenced area of approximately .9 acres has many unusual and mature plant specimens. This section is laid out in areas of special interest such as; Baja California plants, aloes, agaves, euphorbia&#8217;s, cactus, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"style29\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span class=\"style22\">The PC&amp;SG is unique for a local Society garden providing an area with a wide variety of mature\u00a0 plants in as natural a setting as possible. The garden is open to Palomar College students and PC&amp;SS\u00a0 members by appointment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"style29\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span class=\"style22\">Over the years many educational evens have been held in the garden. These events include but are not <\/span><span class=\"style22\">limited to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"style22\" style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li class=\"style29\">Photography lessons\/sessions<\/li>\n<li class=\"style29\">Plant seminars<\/li>\n<li class=\"style29\">Community walk thru (by hiking groups)<\/li>\n<li class=\"style29\">Ecological demonstrations to local school and garden groups<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Contact:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Tony Rangel<br \/>\nPresident, <span style=\"font-size: small\">Friends of the Palomar College Arboretum Committee <\/span><br \/>\nPhone: (760) 744-1150 x2133<br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:ARangel@palomar.edu\">ARangel@palomar.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"style18\" style=\"text-align: justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Palomar Cactus &amp; Succulent Garden was established in 1964 on the Palomar College Campus. It exists on a two and one half acre site located north of Mission Rd.\u00a0and&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/facilities\/cactus-garden\/\">Continue Reading<span> Cactus Garden<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":455,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-308","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6SoZz-4Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/455"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/308\/revisions\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}