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Luther Burbank Home & Gardens - Sonoma Ave Park

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Luther Burbank Home & Gardens - Sonoma Ave Park

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Luther Burbank Home & Gardens - Sonoma Ave Park

Name: Luther Burbank Home & Gardens - Sonoma Ave Park
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Location: Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, United States

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May 1, 2022

Free entrance to beautiful 1.6 acres of blooming flowers, demonstration orchards and agricultural crops in this preserved gardens of American Botanist Luther Burbank (March 7, 1849 – April 11, 1926). This pioneer in agricultural science developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career. Burbank's varied creations included fruits, flowers, grains, grasses, and vegetables. He developed (but did not create) a spineless cactus (useful for cattle-feed) and the plumcot.
Burbank's most successful strains and varieties include the Shasta daisy, the fire poppy (note possible confusion with the California wildflower, Papaver californicum, which is also called a fire poppy), the "July Elberta" peach, the "Santa Rosa" plum, the "Flaming Gold" nectarine, the "Wickson" plum (named after agronomist Edward J. Wickson), the freestone peach, and the white blackberry. A natural genetic variant of the Burbank potato with russet-colored skin later became known as the Russet Burbank potato. This large, brown-skinned, white-fleshed potato has become the world's predominant potato in food processing. The Russet Burbank potato was in fact invented to help with the devastating situation in Ireland during the Irish Potato famine. This particular potato variety was created by Burbank to help "revive the country's leading crop" as it is blight-resistant. The blight is a disease that spread and destroyed potatoes all across Europe but caused extreme chaos in Ireland due to the high dependency on potatoes as a crop by the Irish.
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