Category: Membership Exclusive

June 25, 2026
Member’s Exclusive: Celebrate the Garden After Hours

Details: Spend your summer evening at the Garden after-hours! Members get exclusive access as we keep the Garden open late, offering a rare chance to experience its beauty without the usual crowds. Bring your family for a walk through the meadow, a peaceful stroll among the redwoods, or an evening adventure in the Backcountry.  Due…

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June 2, 2026
Member’s Exclusive: Celebrate the Garden After Hours

Details: Spend your summer evening at the Garden after-hours! Members get exclusive access as we keep the Garden open late, offering a rare chance to experience its beauty without the usual crowds. Bring your family for a walk through the meadow, a peaceful stroll among the redwoods, or an evening adventure in the Backcountry.  Due…

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May 26, 2026
Member’s Exclusive: Celebrate the Garden After Hours

Details: Celebrate the Garden’s birthday with extended hours! On this special evening, we invite members to bring a friend to experience the serene nature of the Garden as the day ends. All members, regardless of level, will be able to bring one guest to the Garden, and enjoy a special treat as we close out…

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The sun is shining on the Pritzlaff Conservation Center. The mountains in the back are sprinkled with lush greenery and the rock remaining is a pinkish hue. It's golden hour, the island plants cast soft shadows across the Island View Lawn. There are blue and orange lounge chairs on the patio. The bushes are blooming with white pink and sage colored flowers.
May 26, 2026
Member Exclusive: Behind The Scenes Tour of the Pritzlaff Conservation Center with Garden Executive Director – Cancelled

Details: Garden members will have an opportunity to meet Executive Director, Steve Windhager, Ph.D., and gain behind-the-scenes access to the Garden’s Pritzlaff Conservation Center. This tour will include interactions with scientists at work in the center’s labs, and a peek at our extensive herbarium collection. Please take advantage of this exclusive insight into our conservation…

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The sun is shining on the Pritzlaff Conservation Center. The mountains in the back are sprinkled with lush greenery and the rock remaining is a pinkish hue. It's golden hour, the island plants cast soft shadows across the Island View Lawn. There are blue and orange lounge chairs on the patio. The bushes are blooming with white pink and sage colored flowers.
May 18, 2026
Member Exclusive: Behind The Scenes Tour of the Pritzlaff Conservation Center with Garden Executive Director | Sold Out

Details: Garden members will have an opportunity to meet Executive Director, Steve Windhager, Ph.D., and gain behind-the-scenes access to the Garden’s Pritzlaff Conservation Center. This tour will include interactions with scientists at work in the center’s labs, and a peek at our extensive herbarium collection. Please take advantage of this exclusive insight into our conservation…

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Blooming poppies flood the meadow. There's a sea of bright orange leading up to the wall of large full trees in front of the far-off mountains. The sky is a hazy blue with light wispy clouds scattered across.
April 28, 2026
Member’s Coffee and Pastries with Dr. Kristen Hasenstab-Lehman | Sold Out

Details: Dr. Kristen Hasenstab-Lehman is a botanist and the conservation geneticist at Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. She integrates field studies, molecular tools, and histological techniques to document biodiversity and to understand the interplay of ecological and evolutionary effects on plants and animals of conservation concern. This month’s Member’s Coffee & Pastries will feature the story of…

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Blooming poppies flood the meadow. There's a sea of bright orange leading up to the wall of large full trees in front of the far-off mountains. The sky is a hazy blue with light wispy clouds scattered across.
April 11, 2026
Member’s Coffee and Pastries with Dr. May Roberts | Sold Out

Details: Dr. May Roberts is the Plant Genomics Lab Manager at Santa Barbara Botanic Garden where she helps support the genetic work that the researchers in the Conservation and Research Department are conducting on rare and endangered native plants. At this month’s Member’s Coffee, she will be sharing the story of one such Channel Islands…

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April 8, 2026
Member’s Coffee and Pastries with Keith Nevison | Sold Out

Details: Join Keith Nevison, Director of Horticulture and Operations, as we take a tour of the Garden’s newest feature, the Torrey Pine Conservation Grove. This emerging grove features the Torrey pine (Pinus torreyana ssp. insularis, one of North America’s rarest native trees that is only found naturally on Santa Rosa Island. We’ll meet at the…

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