Category: Garden Events

February 24, 2026
Community Propagation Workshops

Details: Come celebrate Native Plant Month with hands-on native plant workshops that bring California’s flora to your home! Bring a friend or the family and join us as we guide you through family-friendly, simple propagation techniques. We’ll explore transplanting, processing cuttings, and sowing native seeds. You can take your plant home with you and use…

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February 19, 2026
Gardening for Pollinators|Cancelled

Details: Pollinators are essential to a healthy ecosystem. For gardens to thrive, flowers need to be matched with the right pollinators to reproduce. A successful pollinator garden features a variety of flower shapes, sizes, colors, and bloom times to provide nectar throughout the year. Ensuring diverse plantings will attract an array of pollinators including native…

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February 18, 2026
Nature Journaling with John Iwerks

Details: Enjoy the creative search for artistic natural subjects at the Garden, recording the life that abounds, in your sketchbook through drawings and writings. We will explore subjects both near and far, using lightweight art materials such as pencil, pen, watercolor and colored pencils. Botanical Illustration is encouraged: leaves, flowers, trees. A list and sources…

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A group of hikers waving on a trail on a grassy hill in Elings Park.
January 22, 2026
Mountain Biking with Boom Boom Bike Room

The Garden is hosting a yearlong series of free native plant meetups at Elings Park, offering creative, educational, and family-friendly experiences each month. Participants can enjoy activities ranging from plein air painting and meditative walks to birding, gardening, storytelling, and even biking and skating. You’ll also learn about our native plant restoration project at the Park. Registration…

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A group of hikers waving on a trail on a grassy hill in Elings Park.
January 22, 2026
Weeding on Wheels | Cancelled

The Garden is hosting a yearlong series of free native plant meetups at Elings Park, offering creative, educational, and family-friendly experiences each month. Participants can enjoy activities ranging from plein air painting and meditative walks to birding, gardening, storytelling, and even biking and skating. You’ll also learn about our native plant restoration project at the Park. Registration…

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A group of hikers waving on a trail on a grassy hill in Elings Park.
January 22, 2026
Story Time at Elings With SB Public Library

The Garden is hosting a yearlong series of free native plant meetups at Elings Park, offering creative, educational, and family-friendly experiences each month. Participants can enjoy activities ranging from plein air painting and meditative walks to birding, gardening, storytelling, and even biking and skating. You’ll also learn about our native plant restoration project at the Park. Registration…

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A group of hikers waving on a trail on a grassy hill in Elings Park.
January 22, 2026
Latino Conservation Week Community Walk

Join us for a fun, family-friendly celebration of Latino Conservation Week! Together with Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Latino Outdoors, Wilderness Youth Project, and Los Padres Forest Watch, we’ll explore the amazing plants, animals, and insects that call our local environment home. This free bilingual (Spanish) and bicultural event is open to all ages and is a…

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A group of hikers waving on a trail on a grassy hill in Elings Park.
January 22, 2026
Plein Air Painting with SCAPE & Santa Barbara Botanic Garden

The Garden is hosting a yearlong series of free native plant meetups at Elings Park, offering creative, educational, and family-friendly experiences each month. Participants can enjoy activities ranging from plein air painting and meditative walks to birding, gardening, storytelling, and even biking and skating. You’ll also learn about our native plant restoration project at the Park. Registration…

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