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==Botanical gardens==
[[File:HuntingtonCorpseFlower2014.jpg|thumb|''[[Amorphophallus titanum]]'' at Huntington Library in August 2014|alt=Gigantic green and red flower with a crowd of people looking at it.]]
[[File:Hunnington Botanic Gardens.jpg|thumb|Moon Bridge ]]
The Huntington's [[botanical garden]]s cover {{convert|120|acre|ha}} and showcase plants from around the world. Huntington worked to make them thrive in the generous California climate. Today his many projects of horticulture live on, providing opportunities for botanical research and for enjoyment.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pomeroy |first1=Elizabeth |title=Paradise found: the Huntington library |journal=Wilson Library Bulletin |date=June 1983 |volume=57 |pages=833–837}}</ref> The gardens are divided into more than a dozen themes, including the Australian Garden, Camellia Collection, Children's Garden, [[Huntington Desert Garden|Desert Garden]], Herb Garden, [[Japanese Garden]], Lily Ponds, North Vista, Palm Garden, [[Rose garden|Rose Garden]], the [[Shakespeare Garden]], Subtropical and Jungle Garden, and the [[Chinese Garden]] (Liu Fang Yuan 流芳園 or the Garden of Flowing Fragrance).

The Rose Hills Foundation Conservatory for Botanical Science has a large tropical plant collection, as well as a [[carnivorous plant]]s wing. The Huntington has a program to protect and propagate endangered plant species. In 1999, 2002, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, specimens of ''[[Titan arum|Amorphophallus titanum]]'', or the odiferous "corpse flower", bloomed at the facility. There were a total of fourteen corpse flowers bloomed at Huntington since 1999. Three flowers opened in July 2021.
[[File:Huntington SW01.jpg|thumb|Conservatory]]

The Camellia Collection, recognized as an International Camellia Garden of Excellence, includes nearly eighty different [[camellia]] species and some 1,200 cultivated varieties, many of them rare and historic. The Rose Garden contains approximately 1,200 [[cultivars]] (4,000 individual plants) arranged historically to trace the development of roses from ancient to modern times.

===Chinese Garden===
[[File:Huntington SW02.jpg|thumb|Chinese Garden Liu Fang Yuan|alt=Still pond surrounded by plants with a Pagoda- style structure on the far side.]]
A [[Chinese garden]], the largest outside of China,<ref name="reimagined">{{cite news|first=Edward|last=Rothstein|date=December 20, 2013|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/21/arts/design/the-library-re-imagined-at-the-huntington.html|title=A Treasure House of Shifting Aspirations: 'The Library Re-Imagined,' at the Huntington|newspaper=[[New York Times]]|access-date=2017-02-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161121104337/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/21/arts/design/the-library-re-imagined-at-the-huntington.html|archive-date=2016-11-21|url-status=live}}</ref> was dedicated on February 26, 2008, after artisans from [[Suzhou, Jiangsu|Suzhou, China]] spent some six months at Huntington to construct the first phase of the newest facility. On {{convert|4.9|ha|acre|order=flip}} at the northwest corner of the Huntington, the garden features man-made lakes ("Pond of Reflected Greenery" and "Lake of Reflected Fragrance") with pavilions connected by bridges. Unique Chinese names are assigned to many of the facilities in the garden, such as the [[tea house]], known as the "Hall of the Jade Camellia". Other pavilions are the "Love for the Lotus Pavilion", "Terrace of the Jade Mirror", and "Pavilion of the Three Friends". The initial phase cost $18.3 million to build.

The second phase, which includes the "Clear and Transcendent Pavilion", "Lingering Clouds Peak" with a waterfall, Waveless Boat, "Crossing through Fragrance" bridge and the "Cloud Steps" bridge, opened on March 8, 2014.<ref>[http://huntington.org/WebAssets/Templates/content.aspx?id=15363#images New Section of The Huntington's Chinese Garden Debuts as Phase II Takes Shape] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140304190436/http://huntington.org/WebAssets/Templates/content.aspx?id=15363#images |date=2014-03-04 }}, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, February 28, 2014</ref> There were other pavilions, including the "Flowery Brush Studio", and structures completed under phase two. A place to display its large collections of [[penjing]] and [[bonsai]] has completed.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Fielding|first=Buck|date=2020-10-24|title=Take a peek into the Huntington Library's expanded Chinese Garden|url=https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/take-a-peek-into-the-huntington-librarys-expanded-chinese-garden|access-date=2020-10-27|work=Pasadena Star News|language=en-US}}</ref>

===Desert Garden===
[[File:Desert garden.JPG|thumb|Desert Garden|alt=A variety of cacti of different sizes growing closely together.]]
The [[Huntington Desert Garden|Desert Garden]], one of the world's largest and oldest outdoor collections of [[cacti]] and other [[succulents]], contains plants from extreme environments, many of which were acquired by Henry E. Huntington and William Hertrich (the garden curator). One of the Huntington's most botanically important gardens, the Desert Garden brings together a plant group largely unknown and unappreciated in the beginning of the 1900s. Containing a broad category of [[xerophyte]]s ([[arid]]ity-adapted plants), the [[Desert]] Garden grew to preeminence and remains today among the world's finest, with more than 5,000 species.

===Japanese Garden===
[[File:Huntington SW03.jpg|thumb|Japanese Garden]]
[[File:Japanese Garden by slonecker.jpg|thumb|right|The Japanese Garden bridge]]
In 1911, art dealer [[George Turner Marsh]] (who also created the [[Japanese Tea Garden (San Francisco)|Japanese Tea Garden]] at the [[Golden Gate Park]]) sold his commercial Japanese tea garden to Henry E. Huntington to create the foundations of what is known today as the Japanese Garden. The garden was completed in 1912 and opened to the public in 1928. According to historian Kendall Brown, the garden consists of three gardens: the original stroll garden with [[koi]]-filled ponds and a [[Moon bridge|drum or moon bridge]], the raked-gravel dry garden added in 1968, and the traditionally landscaped tea garden.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Wada|first=Karen|date=2012-04-09|title=At the Huntington, a Japanese Garden of new delights|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-xpm-2012-apr-09-la-et-huntington-japanese-tea-garden-20120409-story.html|access-date=2020-08-31|newspaper=LA Times}}</ref>

In addition, the gardens feature a large bell, the authentic ceremonial teahouse Seifu-an (the Arbor of Pure Breeze), a fully furnished Japanese house, the Zen Garden, and the bonsai collections with hundreds of trees. The Bonsai Courts at the Huntington is the home of the Golden State [[Bonsai]] Federation Southern Collection. Another ancient Japanese art form can be found at the Harry Hirao [[Suiseki]] Court, where visitors can touch the suiseki or viewing stones.

===Other gardens===
* [[Australia]]n Garden
* [[Camellia]] Garden
* Children's Garden
* Conservatory
* [[Herb]] Garden
* [[Jungle]] Garden
* [[Lily]] Ponds
* [[Palm (plant)|Palm]] Garden
* [[Ranch]] Garden
* [[Rose]] Garden
* [[Shakespeare]] Garden
* [[Subtropical]] Garden