November’s Garden Chores
November 2018 By Scott Canning, Horticulture and Special Projects Director November is still a good time to plant or transplant deciduous trees and shrubs. It is getting too late to transplant conifers, because they continue to transpire (lose water from [...]
Thank You, Nina Katz!
Nina Katz Many of you have met Nina Katz, our New Mexico Youth Conservation Core (NMYCC) Lead. This month, we will have to say “so-long, farewell” to Nina as her 6-month term with us is ending. Nina has been [...]
The Garden Journal Podcast: October 6, 2018
The Garden Journal on KSFR 101.1FM A lively, entertaining, and informative gardening radio talk show with four rotating hosts each month. Each week we talk with local, regional, or national experts about timely gardening and environmental topics relevant to Santa [...]
October’s Garden Chores
October 2018 By Scott Canning, Horticulture and Special Projects Director To repeat from last month: Your continued work in the garden will pay future dividends. Remember that terrifying adage: “One year to seed; seven years to weed!" At this late [...]
September’s Garden Chores
September 2018 By Scott Canning, Horticulture and Special Projects Director If you have not thrown in the trowel for the year, I salute you. And your continued work in the garden will pay future dividends. Remember that terrifying adage: “One [...]
August’s Garden Chores
August 2018 By Scott Canning, Horticulture and Special Projects Director It is too easy to give up on the garden in August, but DON’T; “letting things go” now will make for more work in the future, and may mean weed [...]
Northern New Mexico Master Naturalist Certification Now Offered
Wednesday, July 11, 2018 Become certified as a Master Naturalist in this twelve week course focusing on the ecology of Northern New Mexico. This in-depth course provides a combination of classroom and field experiences that will equip participants with the [...]
July’s Garden Chores
July 2018 By Scott Canning, Director of Horticulture Want to know what to accomplish in your garden in July? Here’s two words: water and weed. Think of it this way: weeds steal water and nutrients from your garden plants, so [...]
May’s Garden Chores
May 2018 By Scott Canning, Director of Horticulture May is the month that warms our gardening souls and then breaks our hearts. We seem to always have nice, warm weather in March and April that pushes our spring-blooming plants into [...]
April’s Garden Chores
April 2018 By Scott Canning, Director of Horticulture Oh my, here we are: Late winter, turning into our precocious, New Mexico “spring”. Procrastinator that I am, I should have given my readers a March to-do list, but… Lengthening days (especially [...]
SFBG and Cooking with Kids receive AmeriCorps Planning Grant
March 7, 2018 The Santa Fe Botanical Garden (SFBG) has recently embarked on a new endeavor in education. In partnership with fellow local non-profit, Cooking with Kids, SFBG is exploring the possibility of hosting an AmeriCorps program. AmeriCorps works to [...]
