Future Garden for the Central Coast of California

Future Gardens Exhibition Opening Reception
Sat, May 19, 4-6 p.m.

Internationally renowned for decades as eco-artists, the Harrisons and their Center for the Study of the Force Majeure have worked for over two years on this site-specific environmental art installation in the three geodesic domes and the surrounding garden at the Arboretum.

Working with scientists at UC Santa Cruz and botanists at the Arboretum, along with other artists, scientists, and visionaries, the Harrisons have created trial gardens within the domes in which native plant species are subjected to the temperatures and water conditions that scientists see for the region in the near future. The aim is to determine which plants are best able to thrive as the region warms and to propagate these species as climates shift.