Welcome.

Western Hills Garden is a unique three-acre nonprofit botanical refuge in Occidental, California that delivers a sensory explosion of textures, colors, shapes, and sounds. It’s a stunning example of cultivated biodiversity, home to rare and important plant species, many that are nearly extinct in nature.

The garden includes five ponds, 34 bridges, a magnificent folly inspired by the British garden designer Penelope Hobhouse, rare conifers, camellias, magnolias, maples, lush ferns and palms, and thousands of woody shrubs and perennials.

Come for a day visit, take a class or workshop, enjoy a guided tour. Write, read, draw, picnic.

Wander, wonder, discover.

Our purpose is to link people, plants, and place with possibility.

“This place made my day. Magical and rejuvenating.”

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