Free or discounted entry for members of AHS Garden Network.
The Water Conservation Garden
About this place
A six-acre garden in El Cajon dedicated to showing how water-wise gardening works. The space contains themed display gardens with drought-tolerant plants from around the world, including native plants, a vegetable garden, and areas designed to attract butterflies and other pollinators. Families can explore the Children's Trail, a shaded play zone where kids dig for fossils in sand, make music on an outdoor xylophone, and borrow books from a lending library. Other exhibits demonstrate practical techniques like rain barrel collection, efficient irrigation, and mulching. A glass butterfly pavilion opens seasonally to showcase native butterflies.
If you are a member here
A membership to The Water Conservation Garden carries reciprocal admission, so the same card is worth free or discounted entry at other places in this program.
- the full AHS Garden Network list Botanical gardens and arboreta
Reciprocal programs are built for travel and most exclude places close to the one where you hold your membership, so this is worth the most when you are away from home. How reciprocal memberships work