Details: Children are invited to join us in some holiday cheer by creating a pinecone ornament. This activity will be hosted in the Backcountry and is free with admission for children ages 12 and younger. We hope to see you there.
About the Backcountry Casitas Project: Whether you’re an architect, contractor, design-build team, artist, hobbyist, or student, the Garden needs your help building nature playhouses that encourage the community – especially families – to get outdoors and play in the natural world. Every two years, we host an open call for applications and select up to…
Details: Fall is the perfect time to plant California natives in your garden! Shorter days, cooler weather and winter rains all help roots to grow deep, ensuring better establishment to help get your plants through the longer growing seasons ahead. Our Fall Planting Weekend is back again! We’ve stocked up on a large assortment of…
Details: Join UCSB researchers and Santa Barbara Botanic Garden staff for a presentation on best management practices to create and maintain gardens in high fire risk zones. Learn how these gardens can both save water and provide habitat for native species. Researchers will also share emerging research results on plant flammability.
Details: Visit the Santa Barbara County Horticultural Society on Wednesday, October 4, for a talk by the Garden’s Executive Director, Steve Windhager, Ph.D. Steve will talk about a new initiative at Santa Barbara Botanic Garden to use residential and commercial landscapes to reduce the impacts of climate change and development on biodiversity through the use…
Details: Come to the book launch of Out of the Ground: Poets Respond to Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, an anthology of poems co-edited by David Starkey and Chryss Yost, published by Gunpowder Press, in association with Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. The launch will feature an introduction by the editors and by Scot Pipkin, the Garden’s…
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden’s transformation project at Elings Park has removed thirsty, invasive weeds and replaced them with California-native plants in a one-acre site on the Park’s south bluffs. With plants in the ground, we’re watching and gathering data related to the abundance, diversity, and composition of plant and animal life using this area to…
The Garden is staying open late – just for you! Bring your family and a picnic and close out the week by watching the sunset from the Island View Section outside the Pritzlaff Conservation Center. Or, take a stroll among the redwoods. Or, watch the colors of the meadow come to life at dusk during…
Learn all about native plants and explore the Garden. Sign up for our newsletter.
Donate