Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden

About Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden

Baldwin Lake sits at the center of the Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden, the Queen Anne Cottage white against the trees and peafowl drifting across open lawn as though they hold the deed. Keeping ground like this presentable is daily, unglamorous work: mowing, edging, trimming, leaf and debris removal, and lawn care across wide stretches of public turf. Arcadia's year shows up here before anywhere else — the flush after winter rain, the long thirsty summer, the autumn drop that arrives all at once. Every mown sweep and clean path edge exists so visitors can wander without once thinking about how it got that way. That is the ambition behind any well-kept lawn, whatever its size.