developed a multi-institutional online database (DAPC) to share information about the rare and endangered Asian plants both at the garden and in the larger botanical community. In 2017, the Nuns fire burned three sides of adjacent property to the garden. Aside from a few scorched fenceposts and lost vines, the garden was unscathed. In 2021, Quarryhill Botanical Garden became Sonoma Botanical Garden and expanded its mission to include California native plants. Seed-collecting expeditions From its founding in 1987 through 2017, staff of the garden went on annual expeditions to collect seeds and herbarium specimens from the following Asian regions: Hubei, Sichuan, Taiwan, Tibet, Yunnan; India - Himachal Pradesh; Japan - Hokkaidō, Honshū, Kyūshū, Shikoku, Yakushima; and Nepal. A few other expeditions collected in North America. The garden has also received wild-collected seed courtesy of Index Seminum publications from Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, as well as Asian seed and plants from North American gardens. The garden's collection of includes approximately 25,000 wild origin plants, representing over 2,000 individual species. Most of these planting took place annually beginning in 1990. Some of the garden's plants are available for sale in the garden's Gift Shop. See also List of botanical gardens in the United States References External links Plant Hunting expeditions Botanical gardens in California Parks in Sonoma County, California Sonoma Valley Tourist attractions in Sonoma County, California 1968 establishments in California Woodland gardens