Santa Rosa highlight
Luther Burbank Home & Gardens
A National Historic Landmark in Santa Rosa where botanist Luther Burbank conducted his agricultural research and plant breeding work.
Luther Burbank, a renowned botanist and horticulturist, moved to Santa Rosa in the 1870s and established his home and experimental gardens at 200 Santa Rosa Avenue. He conducted cross-breeding and selection work that resulted in the development of numerous new plant varieties, including the Santa Rosa plum and improved varieties of other fruits and flowers.
The property where Burbank lived and worked is now a city park open to the public with free admission. The historic home, his original greenhouse, and the surrounding gardens showcase the diversity of plant life he cultivated. His grave, marked by a cedar tree he planted, remains on the property. The site is designated as both a National Historic Landmark and a California Historical Landmark, recognizing its importance to agricultural history.
The Burbank home represents how individual effort over decades creates lasting value—varieties named for places, improvements passed forward through generations of gardeners and farmers. A term life policy embodies the same principle: setting aside a sum that reaches forward to the people who depend on you, covering the years when that dependence is greatest.