The wildflowers go off in the Garden Learning Center that surrounds the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History.
Here’s a reason to take a welcome-spring trip over the hill to Santa Cruz.
Situated on a bluff just above Seabright Beach in the charming neighborhood that is the beach’s namesake, the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History is blessed with a sweet location. Surrounded by the city’s Tyrrell Park, through which flows Pilkington Creek, the museum has transformed all of this prime property into a native-plant garden and a kind of outdoor natural history museum—the Garden Learning Center. The garden is in full bloom as you read this.
The creation of this garden was one of the first projects Felicia Van Stolk took on when she came to work as the museum’s education director in 2016—she now serves as executive director. On Hilltromper Santa Cruz, she tells a fascinating story of how this garden fits in with several other projects that are transforming the Seabright neighborhood into a wildlife hotspot.
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