from Monday through Friday from 8:00 AM to 4:45 PM on CSUN’s campus. The garden is closed on weekends and University holidays. In specific cases, management may also close the Botanical Garden on unexpected days or hours during cases of severe weather. The CSUN Botanical Garden is located in the southeast quadrant of California State University, Northridge. The location includes a botanical garden with a variety of unique plants, a nursery, a shade house, and greenhouse areas. Brenda Kanno is the Instructional Support Technician and Garden/Greenhouse manager for CSUN’s Botanical Garden. Brenda has won a trophy from the Los Angeles International Fern Society annual show and sale at the Los Angeles County Arboretum in 2007 for Most Unusual Fern for the fern Elaphoglossum Lucidum. Ann Dorsey is the Instructional Support Technician Assistant and Garden/Greenhouse Assistant for CSUN’s Botanical Garden. Ann has published a chapter on Flora and the ecology of the Santa Monica Mountains in 2007 for the Southern California Botanists' special publication in Fullerton, CA. The CSUN Botanical Garden department staff can be contacted by either Email or telephone. Individuals interested in finding more information about the CSUN Botanical Garden can contact the staff via email. Their telephone may be reached at (818)-677-3496. The department staff may also be faxed at (818)-677-2034. Collections The Botanic Garden was originally planted exclusively with Californian native plants in 1959. Since then the garden has evolved and expanded into a diverse collection representing diverse different geographic regions and themes, with over 1,200 species and cultivars present. The different sections of the garden contain trees, palms, shrubs, 'subshrubs,' perennials, bulbs, cacti, succulents, herbs, annual plants and wildflowers, ground covers, butterfly and beneficial insect sustainers, edibles, and other plant types from; California and the other four Mediterranean climate plant regions of the world, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand, Europe, the Americas, and other continents and regions. An ethnobotanical and a contemporary water-conserving landscape are being developed. More specific plant species than can be found in the garden are: Portea petropolitana, Giant White Squill/Sea Squill (Drimia Urginea maritima), Sundew (Drosera spp.), Parry's Agave/Mescal Agave (Agave Parryi), White Spider Lily (Hymenocallis), Sensitive Plant/Sleeping Beauty (Mimosa pudica), and the Coast Redwood Tree. The native food garden is an entire arce long with fruit orchids, a pollinator space and pine garden. Collections in the native food garden include: California poppies, Native Bunch Gras s (Wild Dry), Purple Needle Grass,