If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area or ever plan on visiting, you simply must pay a visit to the Arizona Garden on the Stanford University campus. This garden had some very old and well established plants, including prickly pair, golden barrel and saguaro. There were also several very large draceana trees. Most of the draceana had their trunks lying along the ground, rather than standing upright. This was the first time I've really seen something like this and was wondering if it had something to do with lack of water? We have a D. marginata "tricolor" at home that flopped over when it wasn't being watered enough. The garden in general was amazing but the years of neglect were apparent. Jane and Leland Stanford commissioned the design by landscape architect Rudolph Ulrich and it was planted between 1880 and 1883. It was planned to be part of the larger gardens for the Stanford estate. After their son Leland Jr died, the plan for a near-by residence was scrapped for a family mausoleum. The garden was regularly maintained until the 1920s after which it fell into great disrepair. Restoration work began in 1997 and continues to this day. I am considering volunteering for the restoration project. If you're interested, you can find ore information as well as a map of the garden at grounds.stanford.edu/points/...den.html