The one-acre Preview Garden is open to visitors during El Chorro Regional Park hours.
Admission is free.
The Preview Garden showcases plants from mediterranean climate regions and gives a hint of the future in such geographical groupings as the California native garden and the winter-blooming South African Cape garden of aloes, succulents and bulbs. Visitors can enjoy events and programs in the sunny amphitheater. Saturday at the Garden, a monthly program of docent tours, lectures, demonstrations, plant and garden shop sales takes place during the growing season, April through November. The Annual May Garden Festival includes landscape design competitions, food, music, crafts, activities for the entire family, and a large selection of plants for sale from the garden greenhouse and area nurseries.