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Botanical Building and Lily Pond Frommer's Highly Recommended

Hours Fri-Wed 10am-4pm; closed Thurs and major holidays
Location El Prado
Transportation Bus: 7 or 7A/B
Phone 619/235-1100
Prices Free Admission

Frommer's Review

This serene park within the park is one of my favorite hideouts. Ferns, orchids, impatiens, begonias, and other plants -- about 2,100 tropical and flowering varieties, plus rotating exhibits -- are sheltered beneath a domed lath house. The graceful 250-foot-long building, part of the 1915 Panama-California Exposition, is one of the world's largest wood lath structures, and was given a complete renovation in 2002. Kids love the "touch and smell" garden and the smelly bog of carnivorous plants. The lily pond out front attracts sun worshipers, painters, and buskers.

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