National Conference to Highlight Botanical Garden
American Public Gardens Association to Highlight SFBG at National Conference https://youtu.be/-0P-OEsP_xE The American Public Gardens Association (APGA) invited the Santa Fe Botanical Garden to be among fewer than a dozen of the organization's more than 600 members to present featured [...]
Santa Fe Pollinator Trail
Bees pollinating cholla flower. Photo: Kathy Haq. Join Santa Fe Botanical Garden, local partner organizations and Xerces Society and build a connected, climate-smart pollinator habitat across our local Santa Fe urban community. Fill out an interest form by 5:00pm [...]
Welcome back Agricultural Student Interns!
Spring 2021 The Agricultural Internship Program at the Santa Fe Botanical Garden provides an opportunity for middle school and high school students to gain hands-on horticulture experience and local plant identification knowledge & skills. The interns’ main project will be [...]
Online Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop
March 2021 Our popular spring pruning workshop was not possible in 2021 due to COVID-19, therefore Arborist Tracy Neal and SFBG Head Gardener, Linda Churchill, developed a virtual workshop on fruit tree pruning. Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop description Proper fruit [...]
Piñon Needle Scale
Piñon Needle Scale (Matsucoccus acalyptus) March 1, 2021 By Head Gardener Linda Churchill Piñon needle scale (PNS) is making a strong comeback around Santa Fe this year, with trees more susceptible because of the successive dry years we’ve experienced. If [...]
Winter Watering
Winter Watering in the High and Dry Steppe The Santa Fe Area and Surrounds By Linda Churchill, Head Gardener If you’re gardening in or around the Santa Fe area, you probably should be watering your garden this winter — and [...]
Remembering Joan Maynard
December 29, 2020 Joan (right) during a 2004 Home Garden Tour Joan Maynard, a former board member and tireless Garden volunteer, passed away in November 2020 following a lengthy illness. “Joan was a one-woman wonder when she was [...]
Coronavirus Update
Wednesday, December 1, 2020 The Garden at Museum Hill will re-open Friday in accordance with the latest emergency public health order issued by the state. All visitors must wear a mask. Staff will monitor the number of visitors entering the [...]
Successful 2020 Season for New Mexico Youth Conservation Corps
Article by Mira Engel and Natasha Farmer, 2020 Crew Co-Leads Working for Santa Fe Botanical Garden (SFBG) as Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) crew leads for the past six months has been a blast. The YCC is a national program that [...]
The Garden Journal Podcast: September 5, 2020
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 [...]
The Garden Journal Podcast: July 4, 2020
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 [...]
