Sunnylands Gardens

We just can't get enough of the botanical garden stuff.  We found another desert plants exhibit at Sunnylands in Desert Mirage.  What a complete difference from the previous place we looked at over 3000 varieties of desert plants (Moorten Gardens in Palm Springs).  Sunnylands is only open 4 days a week; it's free to wander.  It was easy to see why they are closed 3 days a week.  They have to have a huge crew of landscape workers to keep the place as tidy as we found it.  You can see by these pictures how beautiful it is.

Here is a close-up of that one above.

Here is an photo of the original property owner's house.  You can get a tour of the house for $40 dollars if you're lucky.  They go immediately when they become available.  A very popular tour.

Here's the lobby of the Visitor's Center with the view.

It was a most enjoyable walk through the emmaculate manicure gardens.  We got a brochure with plant pictures and names, but I haven't been able to identify most of them.  Lots of varieties of  agave plants (but no tequila).