..La Union Botanical Garden..

La Union Botanical Garden-La Union, Luzon

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

La Union Botanical Garden is a unique botanical garden of its kind in that it is a 20-hectare “Garden of gardens” in a tropical rainforest mountain located in Barangay Cadaclan, San Fernando City, Luzon Island, Philippines. It has plants which grow on tropical, sub-tropical, wet, arid and desert climates. Among the gardens are the Shade Garden, Sunken Garden, Fragrance Garden, Evergreen Garden, Medicinal Garden, Philippine Native Plant Garden, Chinese Garden, Japanese Garden, Palm Garden, Arid Paradise Garden, Orchid Garden and many more. What makes it more remarkable is that there exists a harmonious relationship between the various species of plants in the garden and the animal species around the garden and hill forest vicinity. Traveling to the Garden is an easy 5-mile distance from San Fernando City.

The City of San Fernando  (Ciudad  ti san fernando  in Ilokano; Siyudad na San Fernando in Pangasinan) in La union is a 1st class component city in the Philippines . It is the capital city of La Union and the regional center of the Ilocos Region (Region I). According to the latest Philippine census, it has a population of about 114,813 people in 24,139 households.

San Fernando is the financial, industrial and political center of the province, engaged in agriculture, aquaculture, shipping using the port of San Fernando, and other industrial sectors.