Selecting stucco for the Welcome Ramada
October 18, 2012 Choosing just the right shade of cementitious stucco for a section of the Welcome Ramada can be a challenge. Beverley Spears, owner of Spears Architect and a key partner of the design team, has carefully positioned the palette [...]
View into where the xeric “dry” garden will be
October 12, 2012 The walls are complete for the future "Dry Garden" and the ground is prepared for next week's flagstone patio installation. Stay tuned!
Meadow Garden Sculpture is installed
October 7, 2012 W. Gary Smith, Landscape Architect of Santa Fe Botanical Garden at Museum Hill, and sculptor, Candyce Garrett, with her collaborator Adrian Vigil, worked all day with to install several large sculptures in the gardens. Carved from California [...]
Museum Hill Stewards clean-up the Arroyo
Saturday, October 6th We want to say thanks to the Museum Hill Stewards Team volunteers who came out this weekend to pick up trash along the arroyo and its trails. The arroyo begins in the Santa Fe Botanical Garden and [...]
Pathways and sit rocks in orchard
Tuesday, September 18 We find this week new pathways marked out to surround the orchard and sit rocks to rest on.
North Ramada & Welcome Ramada beginnings
Saturday, September 8 View below the beginning of construction of the stucco walls which will enclose the North Ramada and the Welcome Ramada. Also, we follow the progress in the Dry Garden, which will have a facade of smaller rocks [...]
The first steps
Tuesday, August 28 For the first time, the steps leading up from the orchard to cross over to the meadow garden are now visible in the east section of the rock wall. With some imagination, one can envision walking up [...]
Santa Fe New Mexican “Pick of the Day” – After Hours Tour with Gary Smith
Wednesday, August 22, 6pm What a surprise! Our After Hours tour with landscape architect, Gary Smith, is the "Pick of the Day" in the local paper, Santa Fe New Mexican! We had over 70 enthusiastic participants who learned everything from [...]
Wall construction continues
Tuesday, August 21 Wear your boots! A little rain this week means there is mud some mornings on the site. The work on building the rock wall of the Orchard Gardens carries on. W. Gary Smith is visiting again to [...]
Dry Garden foundation and flagstone
Tuesday, August 14 The following two pictures show the construction crew digging the foundation for the concrete block wall of the Dry Garden (xeric plant collection). Scroll down to also see the large pieces of flagstone that have arrived and [...]
After hours tour with W. Gary Smith, Landscape Architect
Tuesday, August 7, 6pm Thank you to everyone who came out tonight for the sneak peek of the garden's progress! Isn't it fun to see it grow literally from the ground up!? After hours tour with W. Gary Smith [...]
