Quien Sabe, Santa Barbara

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In the 1930s, the naturalist Donald Culross Peattie 'went west' to California and rented a house and garden called Quien Sabe, in Santa Barbara. The garden, created by some (unnamed) earlier owner as a series of 'rooms,' each devoted to the flora of a different part of the world, is vividly described - in the semi-abandoned and overgrown state in which Peattie 'inherited' it - in the chapter called A Garden Alliance in his 1940s book Flowering Earth. (A Garden Alliance because the garden became a collaboration between himself and the Japanese gardener he inherited with it.) I've tried internet search engines for further information about what sounds like a fascinating place but have entirely failed to come up with any. I wondered if anyone here knows anything about it: has it survived and if so in what form?