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Day: July 15, 2026

One Acre of Wild California: The Lester Rowntree Native Plant Garden

The smooth red bark and twisting limbs of a California manzanita

Hidden inside Carmel’s Mission Trail Nature Preserve, a volunteer-tended acre of manzanita, sage, and wildflowers honors Lester Rowntree — the self-taught botanist who remade American horticulture from a cottage in the Carmel Highlands.

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EST. 1997

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