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Pacific Horticulture Tours
Chile: From Desert to Forest: A Pacific Horticulture Tour
Escorted by Kathy Musial, Curator of Living Collections, Huntington Botanical Gardens, and board member, Pacific Horticulture Society
October 2011
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Kathy Musial
Join us as we visit central Chile and "Norte Chico" to see spring wildflowers and magnificent forests. We begin in Chile's capital, Santiago, where we'll see the new Chagual Botanic Garden and visit private gardens featuring native plants, including those of Juan Grimm, Chile's leading landscape architect. We then head north to the edge of the Atacama Desert, where, if the rains have been good, we'll be treated to the spectacular "Desierto Florido" (the Flowering Desert), with carpets of bulbs and annuals. Traveling southward, we'll explore the mediterranean climate vegetation of central Chile, similar to California's chaparral but sprinkled with puyas and cacti. South of Santiago, we'll visit forests with vegetation transitioning from mediterranean to rainforest, ending up at magnificent stands of monkey puzzle trees (Araucaria araucana), one of Chile's signature plants.
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Hidden Treasures Botanical Tours (For a detailed itinerary, contact
Hidden Treasures Botanical Tours)
(573) 881-6316
http://www.hiddentreasuresbotanicaltours.com/pacific.html