Native Plants Sustain All Life on Earth

Upcoming Events & Classes at the Garden

Thirteen Moons: A Book of Hours

Details: Connie Jenkins’ exhibit at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden’s Pritzlaff Conservation Center Gallery will feature photorealist paintings of native flowers Jenkins created to record…

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Student Tea Session: Observation Opportunity

San Miguel Island Day Trip

Attracting Pollinators with a Native Garden

Plant with Purpose

The Garden’s Sarah Cusser Wins Research Award

We are proud to share the news that Sarah Cusser, Ph.D., Terrestrial Invertebrate Conservation Ecologist at the Garden, has been awarded the Early Career Researcher…

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A Visual Story on Restoring Rare Plants on California’s Channel Islands

Fall Planting Season is Here

Join Us for WeDigBio Community Science Day

That’s a Lot of Lichens

Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved.

Jane Goodall

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

Chinese Proverb

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

“…the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.”

Ursula K. Le Guin