02/17/2021
A Garden Blanketed in Snow
The winter storms that battered the United States blanketed the Botanical Garden in snow and made for a serene setting this morning.
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The Santa Fe Botanical Garden features two sites on more than 55 acres: The Botanical Garden at Museum Hill, and the Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve in La Cienega.
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Both sites are open to the public and offer events and education programs for all ages. The Santa Fe Botanical Garden is an educational resource that connects people with nature and fosters respect and enjoyment of plants and conservation. Through exploration of our two sites, fun and innovative programs, volunteerism, and education, we provide opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds to be inspired by and learn from nature.
Mission: The Santa Fe Botanical Garden celebrates, cultivates and conserves the rich botanical heritage and biodiversity of our region. In partnership with nature, we demonstrate our commitment through education, community service, presentation of the arts, and the sustainable management of our nature preserve and public garden. The Santa Fe Botanical Garden has two locations - a Botanical Garden at Museum Hill in Santa Fe, and the Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve in La Cienega.
Operating as usual
02/16/2021
New cones are forming on the piñon pines! Actually, it can take 2 - 3 years for a female cone to mature. Trees don't start to produce cones until they are around 25-35 years old and reach peak production at 160-200 years old. Talk about a different time scale than humans!
02/13/2021
Happy (early) Valentine’s Day! Have a sweet weekend!
02/01/2021
Have you ever wondered why some juniper trees have brighter green dense bunches of stems among their branches? Those are juniper mistletoe plants, Phoradendron juniperinum. Learn all about them as the Garden's February Plant of the Month, https://santafebotanicalgarden.org/plant-of-the-month-february-2021/.
01/18/2021
Our Garden friends are wonderful! We just closed our 2020 year-end fundraising appeal with gifts of $181,000. This surpasses our goal of $125,000 by 45 percent! We can't thank you enough. Come visit!
01/08/2021
Dan Ostermiller's "Panzon" dons new seasonal apparel, courtesy of friends from the Santa Fe Garden Club. That's bark butter on his nose and in his mouth. Here's hoping the birds find it there!
01/06/2021
If the online National Day Calendar is to be believed, today is National Bean Day -- seriously! There's no evidence that this is an official designation, but it seems harmless enough to celebrate this fiber-rich dietary staple, right? These beautiful Scarlet Runner Beans were grown in the Garden in 2020. They are just one of the tens of thousands of bean varieties available around the world. Check your cupboards for beans, and cook 'em if you got 'em. See: https://nationaldaycalendar.com/national-bean-day-january-6, https://www.newmexico.org/nmmagazine/articles/post/tasting-pinto-beans/ and https://beaninstitute.com.😋
12/20/2020
Garden volunteers Stephanie Feldman, Lana Holifield, Barcy Fox and Dora Horn made Head Gardener Linda Churchill's suggestion for peanut butter-and-birdseed-filled pinecones a reality. Visit the Garden today, and for the suggested donation of $10 each, you can leave them for the wild birds who visit the Garden or take them home to feed the birds in your neighborhood. 🙂
12/12/2020
Remember: Saturday, Dec. 12, is Community Day at the Garden, and New Mexico residents and students get in free with proper identification. While you’re there, hang a peanut butter-and-birdseed-covered pine cone on the Christmas tree next to the Visitors Center to feed the wild birds that visit the Garden. The pine cone treats will be near the tree, which we hope you will help “decorate” with a suggested donation of $10 for each pine cone you hang. Thanks to all and happy holidays!
11/28/2020
The Garden is a winter wonderland this morning. Just beautiful!
11/21/2020
Native Winds ::: Virtual Concert Series
You won't want to miss this! The Santa Fe Symphony's "Native Winds" virtual concert, filmed at the Botanical Garden, premieres tomorrow at 4 p.m. If you already have plans for the afternoon, don't worry! Ticket holders will have 30 days to enjoy the concert ... again, and again, and again. Garden friends can use the Promo Code SOAR for a 25% reduction on the $20 ticket price. Enjoy!
https://boxoffice.santafesymphony.org/7190/
November 22, 2020
11/17/2020
Native Winds ::: Virtual Concert Series
Enjoy the Garden differently! As part of its virtual concert series, the Santa Fe Symphony has partnered with WildEarth Guardians to present a stunning environmental-themed program with the Garden as the backdrop. "Native Winds" premieres online Sunday, Nov. 22, at 4 p.m. Households with tickets will have access to the concert until Dec. 22. Garden friends are eligible for a 25% reduction on the $20 ticket price. Use the Promo Code SOAR (all caps). https://boxoffice.santafesymphony.org/7190/
November 22, 2020
11/13/2020
N.M. hits ‘reset,’ re-enacting most heightened level of statewide public health restrictions | Welcome to NewMexico.gov
In light of the latest emergency public health order issued in response to new rates of COVID-19 infections in New Mexico, the Botanical Garden's Museum Hill site will be closed through at least Nov. 30. Stay well!
https://www.newmexico.gov/2020/11/13/n-m-hits-reset-re-enacting-most-heightened-level-of-statewide-public-health-restrictions/
N.M. hits ‘reset,’ re-enacting most heightened level of statewide public health restrictions Nov 13, 2020 | Health New Mexicans instructed to shelter in place through Nov. 30 SANTA FE – Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and state health officials on Friday announced the state of New Mexico will temp...
11/11/2020
Can you identify these three plants from their seed heads? After the flowers have faded, seed heads ornament the garden into winter and help with identification. Type your answers in the comments! #plantquiz #santafebotanicalgarden
11/10/2020
2020 Botanical Garden Harvest Festival Celebration
October 31 in the Garden. See what you missed!
11/07/2020
We donated most of our turnips in August but our interns left these two in the ground just for fun. They wanted to see how big they would get, and were not disappointed. The white globe purple top turnip on the right, affectionately known as "Scarface," grew so much that he split and healed multiple time before we finally pulled him this week.
11/07/2020
We donated most of our turnips in August but our interns left these two in the ground just for fun. They wanted to see how big they would get, and were not disappointed. The white globe purple top turnip on the right, affectionately known as "Scarface," grew so much that he split and healed multiple time before we finally pulled him this week.
#santafebotanicalgarden #fallharvest
#urbanagriculture #agricultureeducation #giantvegetables
11/04/2020
The cold weather has sweetened and softened the crabapples on this Malus x 'Indian Magic' making a tasty snack for a finch. Crabapples look lovely year round in the landscape. Learn more about them in the Garden Explorer, https://santafebotanicalgarden.gardenexplorer.org/taxon-491.aspx
11/02/2020
A big end of season thank you to our Youth Conservation Corps crew! They accomplished so much in the past several months, from wetlands restoration at Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve to erosion control at Randall Davey Audubon Center!
@audubonnewmexico
#santafebotanicalgarden #youthconservationcorps #communitypartnership #outdooreducation
11/02/2020
A white crowned sparrow enjoys the beautiful new birdbath donated by @WildBirdsUnlimitedSantaFeNM at the Museum Hill garden. Look for it in the Welcome Garden under the bur oak tree.
10/31/2020
It’s Community Day (NM residents are free) and Fall Harvest at the Garden today! Come check it out the Garden and demonstrations ... you know you want to!
10/28/2020
Join us on Saturday, October 31, for a Harvest Celebration!
10/26/2020
The Botanical Garden at Museum Hill is CLOSED today (Monday, Oct. 26) due to weather conditions.
10/24/2020
The 2020 Botanical Garden Fall Harvest
Produce grown in the Santa Fe Botanical Garden is shared with the community.
10/23/2020
A big harvest in preparation for the freeze 🍂❄️ thanks so much to our wonderful interns for growing our veggies, which we donate to Kitchen Angels
10/21/2020
Sometimes it's the little things that capture your attention in the garden. Seed pods of blue flax, a bee on 'Hot and Spicy' oregano, the seeds of manyheaded groundsel waiting for a puff of wind, and the spiraling of a hens and chicks plant. Learn more about these plants through the Garden Explorer, https://santafebotanicalgarden.gardenexplorer.org/
10/14/2020
Fall is a great time to visit the Garden! If you can't come by in person, at least let us share one beautiful day with you.
10/14/2020
Fall foliage on full display this week at the wetlands 🍂😍 come see our beautiful cottonwoods turn golden this weekend!
10/14/2020
Flowers for hummingbirds, grass seeds for goldfinches, groundcover for lizards and bench for enjoying the wonder of it all! Take Ecology for Gardeners online to learn the ecological principles that can take your gardening to the next level on Oct. 22, https://santafebotanicalgarden.org/ecology-for-gardeners/
10/13/2020
First autumn carrot harvest thanks to our amazing agricultural interns and YCC crew leads.
10/09/2020
Cottonwoods and aspens get lots of love, but at Leonora Curtin, New Mexico olives in the foreground of this photo shine with golden foliage too! This native shrub is a great drought tolerant option for landscaping, although it does do best with occasional deep irrigation.
Find it in Garden Explorer:
https://santafebotanicalgarden.gardenexplorer.org/taxon-809.aspx
10/07/2020
Santa Fe's aspens get all the press for fall color, but check out the gorgeous fall color of the threeleaf sumac! You can see these at the garden on Museum Hill or at Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve. The name for this compact, drought-tolerant shrub comes from the leaves, divided into three lobed leaflets. Find out more about this sumac at https://santafebotanicalgarden.gardenexplorer.org/taxon-604.aspx
09/30/2020
What do all these plants have in common? They're all in the Aster family! Learn how to identify plants in the Aster and Buttercup families online October 8 with Dr. Sylvan Kaufman in Botany Basics: An Introduction to the Aster and Buttercup Families. https://santafebotanicalgarden.org/livestream-botany-basics-an-introduction-to-the-aster-and-buttercup-families/
09/29/2020
A striking visual example of cooperation in plant communities. Our Agricultural Interns wisely chose to let this volunteer amaranth grow, and now it provides gorgeous support for their scarlet runner beans.
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2020 Botanical Garden Harvest Festival Celebration
The 2020 Botanical Garden Fall Harvest
WAYiN is a brand new series that combines Writing, Art, Yoga and Nature! This 4-week series begins July 7 and offers an opportunity for us to explore various mindfulness techniques. Register today! https://santafebotanicalgarden.org/wayin_series_july2020/ #wayin #santafebotanicalgarden #mindfulness #yoga #artclasses #writing #santafeart
Up, up, up grows the Havard's century plant! We are just $9,000 away from meeting our challenge match of $25,000! You can help us grow as tall as the Agave havardiana - donate today and your gift will be matched dollar for dollar. Give now: https://50919.blackbaudhosting.com/50919/Donation-General-Operations #santafebotanicalgarden #centuryplantblooms #challengematch #covidfundraisers #santafenonprofits #supportnonprofits #agavehavardiana
We have a MATCH! We are just $50,000 away from reaching our goal of $125,000 and a group of generous donors has awarded us a $25,000 matching gift to help us close the gap. Now through June 30, your gifts will be matched dollar for dollar! Donate now: https://50919.blackbaudhosting.com/50919/Donation-General-Operations #santafebotanicalgarden #matchinggrant #covidfundraisers #santafenonprofits
When we learn about a problem - we have to help! Director of Education & Interpretation Mollie Parsons has been working with the Community Educators Network to distribute hands-on activity kits to Santa Fe children. You can help! Donate to support Mollie's efforts here: https://50919.blackbaudhosting.com/50919/Donation-General-Operations #teacherheroes #santafenonprofits #santafebotanicalgarden #communityeducatorsnetwork #scienceactivities #STEM
Reason to Give: Santa Fe Botanical Garden
When we learn about a problem - we have to help! Director of Education & Interpretation Mollie Parsons has been working with the Community Educators Network to distribute hands-on activity kits to Santa Fe children. You can help! Donate to support Mollie's efforts here: https://50919.blackbaudhosting.com/50919/Donation-General-Operations #teacherheroes #santafenonprofits #santafebotanicalgarden #communityeducatorsnetwork #scienceactivities #STEM
We are working hard to reopen to the Botanical Garden! We are consulting with the Department of Safety and we will announce a reopening date soon. The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically impacted our incoming revenue, which is currently down -95% from 2019. We do not have an endowment fund to rely on for these kinds of emergencies. We are, and always have been, a bootstraps organization that operates on a cash-basis. We need your help to keep the Garden's sites open and programs running. Thank you for your support! Make a contribution here: https://50919.blackbaudhosting.com/50919/Donation-General-Operations #covidclosures #reopeningnewmexico #reopeningsantafe #santafenonprofits #experiencesantafe #santafebotanicalgarden
Tent Caterpillars
Uhoh! These little creatures aren’t the prettiest to see, but it’s important to know how to remove them. Cutting tent caterpillars out of your plants will cause more harm to your plants than the caterpillars will. Most shrubs and trees (unless already stressed or there are so many caterpillars the plant is stripped completely) will re-foliate after the caterpillars have done their damage. While the caterpillars are still small, pull the “tent” out of the plant and dispose of it. If you can’t reach the “tent”, use a stick to open it. This will expose the caterpillars and more likely they’ll become food for birds and other predators. As a last resort, you can spray the surrounding foliage with Bt, an organic bacteria. Once the caterpillars ingest Bt, it infests their digestive systems and stops them from eating and will usually die within a day or two. It won’t harm birds or mammals, but will harm most caterpillars, including beautiful butterflies we cherish.
“I love this time of year in the Garden: when the fruit trees have all but finished blooming, and the trees begin to leaf out. It’s one last time to appreciate all of the shades of green before the Garden bursts with color.” - Lindsay Taylor, Director of Institutional Advancement #santafebotanicalgarden #springinsantafe #covidclosures #wemissyou
A Sustainable Future for Our Programs
Help create a sustainable future for the Santa Fe Botanical Garden! Our programs educate visitors and residents alike about the unique challenges in our Northern New Mexico ecosystem faces. Our youth programs provided more than 25,000 educational engagements in 2018, inspiring future naturalists in our community. If you'd like to contribute to our work, you can donate here: https://santafebotanicalgarden.org/support/donate/
Tonight’s GLOW is SOLD OUT (Friday, December 6)! Tickets are still available for the rest of this month. Go to santafebotanicalgarden.org to check out the schedule! #howdoyouglow #glow2019 #santafebotanicalgarden #experiencesantafe
Today is #givingtuesday! Please consider the Santa Fe Botanical Garden and our programs. We provide incredible education programs to our community, provide professional development for teachers, and of course, educate our community on how to garden sustainably in our unique climate! Thank you for your support! Follow this link to support our programs: https://santafebotanicalgarden.org/support/donate/
It’s a snowy morning at Museum Hill! ❄️❄️❄️ The Garden is still open from 9am-5pm today. Bundle up and enjoy the snow! #snowysantafe #santafebotanicalgarden #octobersnow
The snow is coming down at Museum Hill! The Botanical Garden will close at 11am today, January 11, 2019. Stay cozy, everyone!
This is how you do Opening Night of GLOW!
It's pretty busy here at the Botanical Garden!
Who do you want to bring to International Mud Day at the Botanical Garden (10 am - 2pm & FREE!)? Grandpa and Grandma, of course!
What a great Sunset in the Garden concert last night! Shiner's Club always brings it.
Don't miss tonight at GLOW! Catch Shiner's Club Jazz Band until 7:30 tonight! http://bit.ly/1Pnx2Wp
August 2015 - Community Day at SantaFe Botanical Garden
We took this video at Community Day on Museum Hill yesterday - This is a snapshot into our Orchard where the butterfly dancers and our guest band performed. We had such a blast!!
Water catchment
Our water catchment system worked wonders for keeping every drop of rain that fell on the garden, not eroding the gardens and lookin' pretty while working wonderfully... watch and see... turn your volumn up to hear the rain again!
Volunteer Gardeners Day
It is HERE!! -- a morning of weeding and manicuring!! Friday, August 2, 8am till 10:30am. Botanical Garden at Museum Hill, 715 Camino Lejo http://www.santafebotanicalgarden.org/volunteer-gardeners-day/
It WAS a great day to Celebrate a new Bicycle Trail!
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Celebrate | Cultivate | Conserve
The Santa Fe Botanical Garden features two sites on more than 55 acres: The Botanical Garden at Museum Hill, and the Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve in La Cienega. Both sites are open to the public and offer events and education programs for all ages. It is a learning landscape of traditional and native plants, sustainable land- and water-use practices, and an outdoor showcase for presenting music, sculpture and theatrical performances.
Nearby museums
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Museum of International Folk Art
706 Camino Lejo -
710 Camino Lejo
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Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
710 Camino Lejo -
Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
704 Camino Lejo -
725 Camino Lejo
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750 Camino Lejo • Museum Hill
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660 Garcia St
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1050 Old Pecos Trail
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1050 Old Pecos Trl
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Altermann Galleries & Auctioneers
345 Camino del Monte Sol -
700 Acequia Madre
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701 Canyon Rd
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616 1/2 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501
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201 Canyon Road
Other Santa Fe museums
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555 Camino de la Familia -
Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts
Aspen Plaza, 1590 Pacheco St Suite B -
78 Cities of Gold Rd
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National New Deal Preservation Association
P.O. Box 602 -
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
710 Camino Lejo -
Collection of Native Art at Buffalo Thunder
30 Buffalo Thunder Trl -
IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
108 Cathedral Pl -
Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA)
83 Avan Nu Po Road -
223 E Palace Ave
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217 Johnson St
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113 Lincoln Avenue
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Sinta Sanctuarium, Power of Love Casa Luna y
3600 Cerrillos Rd
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Santa Fe Urban Permaculture Network is at the early stages of attempting to create a community collaborative project which has the aim of creating a community food forest. You can learn about our project and about community food forests at … https://www.facebook.com/groups/730138697723187/?hc_location=group
A friend just recently visited the Botanical Garden and fell in love with a verdant green Oak Tree that you have. What Oak is it? I thought it might be a Bur Oak.
Hola Amigos,
Rogelio y Yo, we see beauty. Have not been in Santa Fe for some years. Hope to connect w/you if possible. Our current Santa Fe journey will be only a few days with sister who must return for Meds in Sacramento, after travelling north for a week.
hoping to be in area Sept 18th. Santa Fe New Mexico.
When will you be in the area? Will keep posted.
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Rogelio y Barbara
It's a wonderful place to come and enjoy plants and mountain views
Any changes to tonight's performance pland6due to weather?
Don't forget this FREE cooking demo TONIGHT at 6PM
https://www.facebook.com/events/352102932322884/
“It is rare that a single choice of ours can have a broad and decisive impact on the climate crisis. We have a moral imperative to choose and advocate for plant-based diets for the health of our planet and the well-being and survival of generations to come.”
~ George C. Wang, M.D., Ph.D. is an integrative medicine physician, assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, and adjunct assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
I made some updates to this post. It includes the hands-on lesson.
"The only way to have a truly sustainable diet is to eat more plant-based foods and less meat and dairy. All this new research shows that we don’t have a choice — there simply isn’t the land to feed the U.S. or the world any other way." Center for Biological Diversity
“A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use and water use... It is far bigger than cutting down on your flights or buying an electric car." Joseph Poore, University of Oxford, Department of Zoology and the School of Geography and Environment
"A 1% reduction in world-wide meat intake has the same benefit as a three trillion-dollar investment in solar energy." ~ Chris Mentzel, CEO of Clean Energy
"As environmental science has advanced, it has become apparent that the human appetite for animal flesh is a driving force behind virtually every major category of environmental damage now threatening the human future: deforestation, erosion, fresh water scarcity, air and water pollution, climate change, biodiversity loss, social injustice, the destabilization of communities, and the spread of disease." Worldwatch Institute, "Is Meat Sustainable?"
“If every American skipped one meal of chicken per week and substituted vegetables and grains... the carbon dioxide savings would be the same as taking more than half a million cars off of U.S. roads.” Environmental Defense Fund
"However they are achieved, plant-based diets are a compelling win-win for society... Few climate solutions of this magnitude lie in the hands of individuals or are as close as the dinner plate." ~ Paul Hawken, environmentalist, entrepreneur, author and activist
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“A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use and water use,” said Joseph Poore, at the University of Oxford, UK, who led the research. “It is far bigger than cutting down on your flights or buying an electric car,” he said, as these only cut greenhouse gas emissions.