Manhattan Beach Botanical Garden

This is a small garden inside the Polliwog Park. It’s a tranquil area with copious butterflies. It’s a gorgeous place. It helps you to stop and smell the roses.

This is a teeny, tiny Botanical Garden that is free and conveniently located as part of Polliwog Park. It will take 10 min tops to see the whole thing. I like that it is free and my son can smell some of the flowers. It is definitely worth stopping in if you are already at Polliwog.

Cute prelude to the big park it is connected to. A lot of the flowers dried up. Blame it on the drought. Got to see lots of diff kinds of sage I didn’t know existed!
However just keep walking and you’ll enter the park with a huge lake where you can feed the ducks!
There’s parking on the side of the garden. I believe it is on peck.
Free admission but I wouldn’t drive all the way to MB for this haha.

I walked through yesterday as requested by a fantastic 8 yr old boy. He really likes it and it was a nice addition to our Geocaching day.

Flowers! Flowers! Flowers! Flowers! Flowers! Flowers! Flowers! Flowers! Flowers! Flowers! Flowers! Flowers! Flowers! Flowers! Flowers! Flowers! Flowers! Flowers! Flowers! Flowers!

Buddy & I went thru the garden today. It occurred to me that the water fountain was running, it was shut down for months and now that CA is having a drought, it’s turned back on. Just wondering

It’s a nice little retreat from the streets and the traffic. This botanical garden is hidden within Polliwog Park, and if you’re not attentive, you might even miss the sign for this place.
I like the idea of having a botanical garden nearby. It’s a really small area, so don’t expect a big botanical garden. I wasn’t really expecting much, except just to enjoy the plants and the garden. But when I went, half of the plants in the garden were nearly dry and withered. Some areas are not as well-​kept. And it seems like people have stepped on areas that were not supposed to be walked on at all.
The water structure/​fountain (or whatever you want to call it) is a nice touch. I could imagine myself sitting by the table during springtime when the greens are lush and listening to the sound of water, enjoying the bliss of being away from the traffic and cars and rush hour.
This place has a great potential to offer more, only if it gets the maintenance and attention it deserves.

Small garden. Swing set. Duck pond. Very small, but adjacent to polliwog park. Parking is tight; prepare to walk.

it was a very very very small garden full of weird-​looking plants. soon after reading a poster, i realized they were all plants indigenous of socal! they are unique and the flowers are so vibrant. did you know we have the exact same weather as the mediterranean? i sure didn’t.
i wish the path kept going, but it ended so quickly. i enjoyed it, regardless. thanks.

Petite, but really well done. There’s a nice sampling of California natives in the garden and signage explaining each plant species so that you know how to cultivate it in your home garden.
If you’re looking for more to do, there’s a cute little lake in the park with lots of duck and geese around and a nice set of swings too.

Waiting for my son to get out of his SCROC class I decided to hike around Polliwog Park since I haven’t been there since my son was in middle school when he was doing a science project.
In the South/​West corner I came across the small but cute botanical gardens.
Although it is very small it is worth a walk through if you are nearby. The birds and the butterflies seem to like it there too.