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July 7, 2025
Ironwood 37 is Here
The latest issue of Ironwood, the Garden’s biannual magazine, has arrived — and it’s rooted in hope. Issue 37 invites you to dig deeper into…
Category: Garden News
March 21, 2025
Living with Fire: How Native Plants Can Help Build a Resilient Community
Southern California is no stranger to fire, but as we were all reminded in January 2025 with the Eaton and Pacific Palisades fires, they are…
December 19, 2024
Introducing Ironwood 36 | An Ode to Seeds
The digital edition of Ironwood 36, the Garden’s bi-annual magazine, is here — and it’s brimming with stories that will inspire, inform, and ignite your…
November 18, 2024
Transforming Elings Park | One Year Later
In the fall of 2023, the Garden started a habitat creation, experimental science, and community-building project on the mesa at Elings Park, a collective effort…
November 11, 2024
Introducing the Tipton Trail
On Sunday, November 17, celebrating National Hiking Day, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden is opening the new Tipton Trail, a pathway connecting Garden members and guests to…
March 21, 2024
Wings and Wildflowers: New Art Exhibit is an Homage to Habitat
This spring, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden proudly presents “Arriving Home,” a new exhibition of prints and paper cut collages by multidisciplinary environmental artist, Justina Freel.…
January 10, 2024
Future-Proofing Food Webs: A Bold Habitat Restoration Experiment at Elings Park
Invasive species are one of the biggest contributors to a decline in biological diversity that is happening across the globe, and we’re seeing this play…
January 8, 2024
Seven Questions with Development Director Melissa G. Patrino
From the beginning, when Anna Dorinda Blaksley Bliss purchased the first 13 acres in Mission Canyon in 1926 with a request that it become a…