Quail Gardens

Rain Forest Area

Quail Gardens is a botanical garden in Encinitas, CA. It is very big. The tickets are quite pricey, which is kind of funny considering it's a non-profit organization. I have noticed lately that "non-profit" means expensive. They have one day free (you still have to pay the parking fee but it's only a dollar).

Anyway, there was quite a crowd there. I guess not many people want to pay full price. While the garden is big and has lots of different plants subdivided into regions by countries, continents and climatic areas like rain forest, tropical, etc. the majority of plants were not very well marked and that was disappointing. I have noticed the same thing in Turtle bay Park in Redding (another non-profit) though and its garden was much, much smaller.

Anyway, it's a good place to spend a couple of hours. But I would not like to pay $10 to see it.