Who and what is involved in maintaining the gardens?
The Los Angeles Zoo’s dedicated grounds maintenance crew, which includes 16 full-time gardener caretakers and 4 senior gardeners, handles the various tasks of our botanical garden’s upkeep. Looking after thousands of different plants from around the world is a complicated and multi-faceted job. Specimens are constantly being moved, trimmed, or replanted for a number of reasons; they have outgrown their current site, they are in the way of a new exhibit, and so on. The botanical gardens are thus always a progressing project, constantly shifting to reflect the collection’s growth.
