When I began as a guest services associate at Santa Barbara Botanic Garden 15 years ago, I never imagined how deeply I’d come to love this place. After all, I was a jeweler by profession — working alone in a quiet, controlled environment, just me and my tools. But here, every moment is alive with…
The digital edition of our latest Ironwood, the Garden’s bi-annual magazine, is now available. Celebrating a new chapter in our journey to conserve native plants and habitats across the Central Coast, this issue features a diverse collection of thought provoking and engaging stories we hope will inspire you to join the movement that ensures biodiversity…
For nearly a century, we’ve not only worked to establish our conservation mission that ensures biodiversity can thrive, but we’ve also acted as stewards for the 78-acres from which we operate – Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. This garden holds special memories for many who have soaked in the views, walked along its paths, and even…
Since 1926, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden has understood the interdependency between people and plants. Driven to preserve our natural world, our mission was established to conserve the foundation of all life on Earth — native plants. Today, the Garden is home to more than 974 unique native species, subspecies, and cultivars found only within the California…
Sometimes, when you’re so busy doing the work, it’s hard to slow down and celebrate the progress, people, and supporters behind it all. Our biannual magazine, Ironwood, is changing this script and we’re proud to introduce our latest issue, #34. With each new issue we put a spotlight on our latest wins, explore topics near…
Few people can call the natural world their office. However, Heather Schneider, Ph.D., the senior rare plant conservation scientist at Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, isn’t one of those people! Her full-time job is to understand, protect, and restore California’s rare native plants – and she’s been growing her team and the Garden’s collection of rare…
As the Garden’s Board of Trustees chair, Mark Funk is committed to nurturing the Garden’s growth and ensuring we do everything we can to fulfill our mission. That’s why he wanted to join us for our year-end appeal season with an important message for Stock Monday (November 27), a day highlighting the benefits of giving…
In the pursuit of her doctorate in Sweden, Rikke Reese Næsborg, Ph.D., became fascinated with lichen and was determined to turn her passion into a career studying this complex lifeform and it’s vital role in a thriving ecosystem. However, upon relocating to the United States, she encountered a disheartening reality — lichenology is a severely…
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