Much Ado About Nothing – Best Season Yet!
August 23, 2023 Thank you for making this year the best season yet! Photo by Lynn Roylance A message from Santa Fe Classic Theater - As we say goodbye to this year's tremendous production of Much Ado About [...]
Gift of Seeds
June 26, 2023 On June 21, the Santa Fe Botanical Garden (SFBG) was gifted a wonderful batch of native seeds from the Institute for Applied Ecology (IAE). The mission of this conservation organization, whose offices are located in Corvallis, Oregon [...]
Celebrating 10 Years on Museum Hill!
This past weekend the Santa Fe Botanical Garden celebrated a great milestone-- its 10-year Anniversary on Museum Hill! We had 3 days of exciting events from June 15-17 with beautiful weather and had a chance to reconnect with new [...]
New native pollinator plant collection in the Garden
May 2023 By Linda Churchill, Horticulture Director After much planning (and planting) we are delighted to announce we have a new pollinator garden on site! On May 20th a group of Volunteer Gardeners worked with Linda to plant over [...]
Custom three-bin compost system a new Garden feature
June 2023 Aaaaaaand it's here! Our spanking new 3-bin composting system is complete and we are now composting on site! The new compost bin, courtesy of the RAID (Recycling And Illegal Dumping) grant from the New Mexico Environment Department (see also [...]
Message from the Executive Director
March 31, 2023 Dear Garden Supporters: Well, spring is finally here – at least according to the calendar! And while it will be a few more weeks before it looks and feels like spring in the Garden, the staff is [...]
Compost Happens
March 2023 Composting is coming to SFBG! Thanks to winning a RAID (Recycling And Illegal Dumping) grant from the New Mexico Environment Department, we (along with 6 other sites across New Mexico) will soon be building an on-site, three [...]
Remembering Susan Bruneni
February 27, 2023 We are sorry to let you all know of the recent passing of Susan Bruneni, a great person and wonderful friend of the Santa Fe Botanical Garden. Susan began volunteering with the Garden shortly after moving to [...]
A Soft Heart and a Prickly Passion
January 31, 2023 John "Obie" Oberhausen. Photo: Cactus Rescue Project Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/cactusrescueproject/ The horticultural community in Santa Fe lost an important and well-loved friend on Christmas Eve of 2022. John “Obie” Oberhausen died after a long illness, [...]
A Glimpse of Night Tree in 2022
December 2022 After several "quiet" holiday seasons, the Santa Fe Botanical Garden celebrated 2022 with a "Night Tree" event inspired by Eve Bunting's book of the same name. Farolitos and lights decorated the winter garden, families enjoyed activities with [...]
Bird Walks at the Botanical Garden
By Christie Collins We introduced a new monthly program in November 2022. Once a month we offer guided birding walks through the Botanical Garden for pre-registered participants. There were many reasons why we wanted to offer a birding program at [...]