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Upcoming Events & Classes at the Garden

• Free, Lecture

December 1, 2022

Tiny Critters on Giant Trees: A talk by Rikke Reese Naesborg, Ph.D.

Details: The Garden’s Tucker Lichenologist & Curator of the Lichenarium, Rikke Resse Naesborg, will be giving a talk about her exciting work with tiny critters…
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• Health & Wellness

December 6, 2022

Yoga at the Garden- December 2022
• Natural History, Youth, & Family

December 7, 2022

Morning Bird Walk – December 2022
• Lecture

December 8, 2022

Oaks for the Future: A discussion with Dave Muffly

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• Horticulture, Garden Collections

Oaks of Santa Barbara Botanic Garden’s Living Collection

Have you ever appreciated the shade of a towering oak tree on a hot day? Or enjoyed watching the flash of black and white and…
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• Conservation & Research, Garden News

The Garden’s Sarah Cusser Wins Research Award
• Conservation & Research

A Visual Story on Restoring Rare Plants on California’s Channel Islands
• Horticulture, Conservation & Research, Gardening with Native Plants, Education, Garden News

Fall Planting Season is Here
• Botany, Conservation & Research, Garden News

The Garden Hosts WeDigBio Community Science Day

Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved.

Jane Goodall

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

Chinese Proverb

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

“…the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.”

Ursula K. Le Guin

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