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September 22, 2023
For the Love of the Garden’s Meadow
The Meadow is one of the most iconic sections at Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. In spring, it provides the opportunity to view our own local…
Category: Horticulture
July 24, 2023
Ironwood | Issue 33
The spring/summer issue of Ironwood is now available online. Ironwood, the Garden’s biannual magazine, beautifully celebrates the power of native plants and their impact on…
February 3, 2023
Stanley Smith Plant Establishment Trials
Why Study Native Plant Gardening? California native plant horticulture is an open frontier. There are still lots of basic questions that we haven’t been able…
January 30, 2023
After the Rains: California’s Rain Season
The 2023 rainy season has been marked by a series of atmospheric rivers that have brought abundant moisture to California. With this, the Garden experienced…
January 6, 2023
New Living Conservation Collections Planted at the Garden
This December, a collaboration between The Nature Conservancy and the Conservation and Horticulture departments at the Garden resulted in the addition of 56 new plants…
December 6, 2022
Ironwood | Magazine of Santa Barbara Botanic Garden | Issue 32
The fall/winter issue of Ironwood is now available online. In this latest issue you’ll get an inside look at lichens in a captivating story about…
November 16, 2022
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…
September 21, 2022
Milkweed for Monarchs
On July 21st of this year, migratory monarch butterflies were officially entered as Endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List…