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 how our Tucker Lichenologist Rikke Reese Næsborg, Ph.D. approaches her research. You’ll also hear from our horticulture team regarding some of the best planting and pruning tips for this fall…
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 red as a busy Acorn Woodpecker stores food for winter? Oak trees are an iconic part of landscapes across California. Anywhere you travel in California you will find oaks: from…
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 of Threatened Species. The migratory monarch butterfly is a subspecies of the monarch butterfly that is widely known for its epic, thousands of miles long journey from summer breeding areas…
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden’s horticulture team just returned from a successful trip to Santa Rosa Island to collect seed from the island subspecies of Torrey pine (Pinus torreyana ssp. insularis). Torrey pines are one of the rarest pines in the world, and only occur in two places: on Santa Rosa Island off the coast of…
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