Celebrating Balboa Park – Part IV: Farms and Gardens — Nan Sterman While Balboa Park’s planners and designers were jockeying for position, the park’s horticulturists were scurrying to propagate plants for the exposition gardens. They had only five years to landscape

Celebrating Balboa Park – Part III: Work Begins — Nan Sterman By 1909, the park’s design began to take shape. The Chamber of Commerce came up with the idea to create a World’s Fair to celebrate the 1915 opening of the Panama Canal. It would help boost the city’s economy, which h