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This spring, we officially open four gardens that were created or refurbished with funds from the Seed the Future campaign. Our Horticulture staff

worked hard over the last 18 months to finalize designs and to get these gardens planted. I am pleased to open the renewed Home Demonstration Garden, the new Island View Garden, Maze, and Wooded Dell, all on May 1, with a community celebration of the Garden’s 90TH anniversary. It is exciting to see these changes to the

Garden taking place during what was a very busy winter!

We will also open the Garden’s first new building in 30 years - The John C. Pritzlaff Conservation Center. This building not only provides expanded research capacity, but it also allows our conservation mission to become part of the visitor experience. Windows into the lab spaces allow the day-to-day work of conservation to be on display, and permanent and temporary exhibits will show why the work of the Garden is so critical.

Moving staff into the new Pritzlaff Conservation Center this spring allows the Administrative Cottage to become our new volunteer headquarters, housing the Garden Guild, volunteer meeting space, and the office of Kathy Castaneda, our Volunteer Program Manager. The upstairs of the current Herbarium will become our expanded education offices, with the lower story a dedicated library collections space. It will also allow us to set up office space for our gardeners – something they have not had since the Gane House burned in the Jesusita Fire in 2009.

These improvements have been a long time in coming and represent a substantive improvement in our ability to foster the conservation of California’s native plants. They greatly enhance the experience of the gardens for visitors of all ages and interests, including a wider array of gardens to appreciate, useful information on native plant horticulture and sustainable gardening, more opportunities to play, and access to the science that underlies it all.

I want to thank you for the generous support which has made all of this possible. I hope you will join me in celebrating what your generosity has achieved this spring.

See you in the Garden,

Steve Windhager, Ph.D.Executive Director

1212 Mission Canyon Rd. Santa Barbara, CA 93105 tel (805) 682-4726fax (805) 563-0352WWW.SBBG.ORG

GARDEN HOURS Mar - Oct: Daily 9am - 6pm

CLASS & EVENT INFORMATION (Ext. 102)Registrar is available: M - F / 9am - 4pm

EDUCATION (Ext. 160)

GARDEN GROWERS NURSERY (Ext. 127)Selling California native plants to the public with no admission fee.Hours: Mar - Oct, Daily 10am - 5:30pm

GARDEN SHOP (Ext. 112)Hours: Mar - Oct, Daily 10am - 5:30pm

MEMBERSHIP (Ext. 110)

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IRONWOOD | Volume 24, Number 1 | Spring 2016ISSN 1068-4026

The Ironwood is published four times a year as a member benefit of the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, a private nonprofit institution founded in 1926.

The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden fosters the conservation of California native plants through our gardens, education, and research, and serves as a role model of sustainable practices.

The Garden is a Member of the American Public Gardens Association, the American Association of Museums, the California Association of Museums, and the American Horticultural Society.

©2016 Santa Barbara Botanic GardenAll rights reserved.

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HOW OLD am I?Help us celebrate our 90th birthday by celebrating the ages of the plants you love and sharing how long you have been a part of the Garden family.

Some of our plants were here before the Garden was founded in 1926, like the sycamores in the Redwood Grove. Others are with us for just a season, like the delicate California poppy. Every plant acquired since 1934 has a tag that tells us when it was planted and written records give us a good idea about plants before then. The combination of plants of different ages gives the Garden its depth and beauty. Likewise, some people who love the Garden have been with us for decades, while others are new to our family.

For this issue of Ironwood, we asked staff and friends to share their favorite plants and let us know how long they have been at the Garden.

Agave Sebastiana PLANTED: 1996

“This plant came from our last collecting trip to Baja California in 1996 from

San Benito Island. I love the grey and the maroon tips at the edges.”

– BETSY COLLINS, Director of Horticulture (since 1990)

GANDER OAK, Quercus x ganderiPLANTED: 1942

“I like oak because they are a food source for the Chumash who historically mainly ate acorns and fish. I like their form. I like

their presence. I like their strength.”

– ADAM KUSTER, Gardener (since 2015)

CANYON BLUSH MANZANITA, Arctostaphylos glauca

‘Canyon Blush’

PLANTED: 1971

“I love the sculptural beauty of its deep red bark and the fact that it blooms in

January. Their upside down flowers make pollination fun for the bees.”

- N INA DUNBAR, Director of Development

(since 2012)

CALIFORNIA POPPY, Eschscholzia californica

PLANTED: Every January

Sierra likes to rub poppies on her nose

and face and say "ahhhhh"

pretending they have fragrance and "oh my."

- S IERRA DARLING, (Garden member since she was six months old - now four. Her father has been

visiting for 20 years.)

When did you put your roots down in the Garden? Help us celebrate our 90th by posting a photo of you and your favorite plant in the Garden. Use

#SBBG90thBirthday or tag us on Instagram. We will choose one photo to win a special Garden prize on May 1st at Cultivating the Wild Comes Home.

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GROWING the FUTURENEW GARDENS AT THE GARDEN

It’s been a busy three years for the Horticulture staff with five new garden displays conceived, designed, and installed all thanks to Seed the Future campaign funding. On May 1, 2016, we present four of these newborn gardens to the world as part of our 90th birthday celebration. Two of the gardens – the Maze and the Wooded Dell – were generously donated by the Garden Club of Santa Barbara to commemorate their 100TH year.

Located in the Garden’s old Channel Island

Section, the Maze is the anchoring element for the future Backcountry Adventure children’s play area. Designed by artist and Garden Club member Lenore Hughes, this is the first and only garden maze in the United States planted using coyote brush.


At long last, we will reestablish our Channel Island Section (lost to the Jesusita Fire in 2009) with the June planting of the Island View Garden around the new Pritzlaff Conservation

Center this April. The Garden has always maintained a renowned collection of plants from the Channel Islands reflecting our long history of island research. This garden occupies the ridge top and surrounds the new building, providing a stunning view of the Islands.

Our conservation collection of some of California’s rarest native plants, including island barberry, island bush mallow, and island silver lotus, will be displayed in stone planters surrounding the building. We will begin to establish our comprehensive living collections for each island on the slopes below the ridge in the years to come.

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for the last three years and is still a work in progress. Our goal is to return the Meadow to its historic condition and reestablish the beloved wildflower shows of years past. Each year we adjust the wildflower mixture, leaving you to guess which flowers will show up first and which colors will blend with the magnificent brilliance of the orange California poppies.


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When it was planted in 1991, the Home Demonstration Garden was on the leading edge of education on native plant landscape design. With the increasing importance of water conservation, the Garden partnered with Water Wise Santa Barbara to redesign this exhibit to showcase best practices in water conserving landscape design with a beautiful, easy to grow palette of drought tolerant native plants at its core.

The Wooded Dell surrounds the Campbell Bench, designed by Lockwood de Forest, one of the Garden’s historic landmarked features. The trail’s dedication plaque, which reads: “A Trail through a Wooded Dell dedicated to Peace and Meditation,” inspired the creation of a deciduous forest with an understory of coral bells, ferns, columbine, and iris, all tied together by an ingenious ribbon of leafy reed grass and California fescue.

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This is the question we asked our supporters last November. With less than six months to go before staff moves into the new Pritzlaff Conservation Center, we still need funds to outfit the new lab space with equipment. An anonymous Garden donor issued this challenge: “I will match every donation dollar for dollar, up to $50,000, to complete the Garden’s new genetics and conservation laboratories.” More than 91 donors took the challenge and we reached our $100,000 goal by January!

Outfitting these labs is part of the Conservation Capstone Campaign started last fall to raise $750,000 to put the finishing touches on the Pritzlaff Conservation Center and to fund new conservation initiatives. The Garden’s trustees all pledged lead gifts to the campaign and many Seed the Future donors renewed their support, while others generously included the campaign in their year-end gifts to the Garden.

Although we still have two months to go for this effort, this seemed a perfect opportunity to thank our many supporters who made an early commitment to the Conservation Capstone Campaign. Please consider joining these donors. To tour the new building and discuss how your gift can make a difference to the Garden’s conservation work, please call our Development Office at 805-690-1697.

165 supporters and counting—be a part of our conservation future in 2016!

Mr. Henry P. AdamsMrs. Susan G. AdamsMs. Lesley J. AlexanderMrs. Julia AllenMr. and Mrs. Joel AltschulMrs. Elizabeth B. AmesMr. and Mrs. David H. AndersonMr. and Mrs. David E. AndersonAnonymousMr. and Mrs. Christopher AronsonMr. and Mrs. Bernard BacharachMs. Jill K. BarnitzMr. and Mrs. Ralph BaxterMr. Michael R. BenedictMr. Mark Bessey and Ms. Yvette KellerMs. Linda Bizzelle and Dr. Carl SlawskiMr. and Mrs. Tom T. BoltonMrs. Barbara BonadeoMs. Susan E. BowerMrs. Stephen R. BoyleMrs. Elinor BrelsfordMr. and Mrs. John A. BrinkerMrs. Patricia P. BroomeMs. Wendel M. BrussMr. and Mrs. Roland F. BryanMr. Richard BuchenMr. Rick Burgess and Mrs. Tricia MunroMr. and Mrs. Dave CarlbergMr. and Mrs. Paul CaronMs. Darlene ChirmanMr. Marc Chytilo and Mrs. Nancy WeissMr. and Mrs. A. P. Cook IIIMr. and Mrs. A. Crawford CooleyMr. and Mrs. Daniel L. CrottyMr. Tom Dudley and Dr. Carla D’AntonioMr. Paul Deal and Ms. Laurie EuseyDeckers Outdoor CorpMr. Theodore Deffenbaugh and Mrs. Natalie QuaratinoMr. and Mrs. Jeffery DonahueMr. Albert Hirschmann and Ms. Dorothy EdminsterEhlen, Spiess & Haight, Inc.Mr. and Mrs. Gary EldridgeElizabeth Bixby Janeway Foundation

Mr. Brendan Barnwell and Dr. Patty L. ErbeMr. and Mrs. R.H. Donnelley ErdmanMr. George Eskin and Ms. Hannah-Beth JacksonMr. and Mrs. Lendon EversonMr. Walt FidlerMr. Marc P. Fisher and Ms. Kris Miller FisherMr. and Mrs. George FriedenthalMrs. Lou Greer FrostMr. and Mrs. John GabbertMrs. Francesca GaltMr. Larry Disharoon and Ms. Diane GalvanMr. and Mrs. John R. GardnerMr. and Mrs. John T. GerigMr. and Mrs. Ernest GettoDr. and Mrs. Jerry D. GibsonMr. Jeb Gist and Ms. Jane MertensMr. Joel GoldbergMrs. and Mr. Eunice GoodanMrs. Gloria Hall and Mr. F. D. MurrayDr. and Mrs. Charles F. HamiltonMr. and Mrs. Raymond HesterMr. Kenneth R. HimesMr. Glen HolsteinMr. Richard Huff and Mrs. Jill Irwin HuffMr. and Mrs. Sean HutchinsonMr. and Ms. Ray IlgunasMr. and Mrs. Josiah C. JenkinsMs. Marian D. JonesMs. Mary Ann JordanMr. and Mrs. Jim KennettMr. and Mrs. David KershawDr. Ed Henderson and Mrs. Carolyn KincaidMr. and Mrs. William KincaidMr. and Mrs. Charles KingMr. and Mrs. John Kinnear IIIMr. and Mrs. Stephen H. KompMr. and Mrs. Jim KoopmansMs. Ellen KraghMr. and Mrs. Marc KummelMr. and Mrs. James LangerMrs. Blair LawlorMs. Alexis Lettington and Ms. Vicki KlassenDr. and Mrs. Albert LindemannMr. and Mrs. Trevor LindseyMs. Sheila Lodge

Mrs. Ann LorimerMacFarlane, Faletti & Co.Dr. and Mrs. James W. MarkhamMr. James T. MartinMr. A. Michael Marzolla and Ms. Rose WillsMrs. Colleen MathewsMr. and Mrs. Jim M. McClureMr. and Mrs. Joel MendelsohnMs. Janet MerryweatherMs. Patricia MickelsonMrs. Janet MillarMr. and Mrs. Gary MillikenMission Wealth ManagementMr. and Mrs. Rick MohunMrs. Katherine MolonyMoney Arenz FoundationMs. Rebecca Mordini and Mr. Rick NielsenDr. Stephanie Moret and Dr. Derek BoothMr. Peter L. MorrisMr. and Mrs. Charles L. Morse IVMrs. Katherine J. MuckleDr. and Mrs. Thomas W. MulroyMr. Michael Musson and Ms. Amy E. KovarickMr. and Mrs. Albert NassiMr. and Mrs. Don NewmarkMr. Kenneth A. Owen and Ms. Linda BenedikMr. Carl Palmer and Dr. Carrie KappelDr. Anuja Parikh and Dr. Nathan GaleMr. John H. ParkeMr. and Mrs. Michael PerryMr. Joseph PhillipsMr. and Mrs. Jeff PhillipsMr. Marc Soltan and Ms. Carolyn PidduckMrs. Susan B. PlumerMr. and Dr. Martin PlummerDr. and Mrs. Dennis PowerMrs. Nancy RenshawMr. Christian Stepien and Mrs. Melissa Riparetti-StepienMr. Edward F. Roach and Ms. Elizabeth O’RourkeMr. and Mrs. Michael RodrigueMs. Catherine RoseMs. Elizabeth RossRoy E. Crummer Foundation

Dr. and Mrs. Chris RoyceMrs. Florence J. SanchezDr. and Mrs. Douglas ScalapinoMs. Mary ScaranMr. and Mrs. Sam SchaeferMrs. Jean K. SchuylerMr. Peter Schuyler and Dr. Lisa StrattonMs. Erlaine H. SeegerDr. Frances SharpeDr. and Mrs. David A. SiegelMr. and Mrs. Wayne SmithMr. and Mrs. Barry SpectorMr. and Mrs. Jack StapelmannMrs. Ruth StarkSteele Family FoundationMr. Steve Senesac and Ms. Ann SteinmetzMr. William L. StephensMr. and Mrs. Eric SternMr. and Mrs. Clark StirlingThe Woodward FundThe Write TeamMr. Brian Tichenor and Ms. Raun ThorpMr. and Mrs. Michael TiffanyMs. Judy TrejosDr. Shirley C. TuckerMr. and Mrs. Bruce Van DykeMr. and Mrs. Steve VarneyMrs. Mary H. WalshMs. Marianne WetzelMr. John Fox and Ms. Wini WhiteMr. Dana WhiteDr. Dieter Wilken and Dr. Elizabeth PainterMr. Hall F. WilkieDr. and Mrs. Ronald L. WilliamsMr. and Mrs. Norman WilliamsonMr. John S. WillisMr. and Mrs. Scott WiscombMr. and Mrs. William S. WiseMs. Laurel Woodley and Dr. Shirley SchwanzaraMrs. Gordon WrightWWW FoundationMr. Oran R. Young and Ms. Gail OsherenkoMr. Jules M. Zimmer

Conservation Capstone Campaign Donors as of January 28, 2016

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7 Volunteer Orientation Explore our diverse volunteer opportunities and the simple steps to get started as part of the Garden team. Bring a friend and get the behind the scenes tour! 5 - 6:30pm

MAR

12 Teahouse Open

Visitors and members are invited to experience our ShinKanAn Teahouse and Garden and learn about the rich traditions of the Japanese tea ceremony. Free with paid Garden admission. Noon - 2pm.

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Anacapa Island: Celebrate Spring Wildflowers

The first of three Channel Island trips. Join Island expert and botanist Steve Junak for this memorable land and sea adventure, as Anacapa blooms in rainbow colors. 9:30 – 4pm. $95 / $125.

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California Native Plant Society

Firefighter Dan McCarter offers a presentation on wildland firefighting. Watch gardENotes for speaker information. 7 - 8:30pm Free.

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THE SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDENCALENDAR

Free Public Docent Tours every Saturday and Sunday at 11am & 2pm, and Mondays at 2pm

Price listing: member / non-member / volunteer | Register at sbbg.org/classes-events or call 805-682-4726 x102

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Winter Bird Walk Join expert naturalist Rebecca Coulter and enjoy watching and listening for the diverse and beautiful birds that make the meadow, woodlands, and creek side their home. 8:30 – 10am. $10 / $15 / $5.

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Domecar Botanic Day Trip

A rare glimpse of some of the last original native coast-al landscape in southern California. Ride in style for a narrated scenic adventure. Catered buffet lunch with beer and wine included. 10am – 5pm. $160 / $185.

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Painting the Natives

Capture the structure and beauty of native wildflowers in vibrant watercolor. Beginning and advanced students are welcome; materials are provided. 10am - 1pm. $125 / $150.

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Spring Native Plant Sale

With over 1,000 plants and 500 different varieties, this is the time to find something special for your yard. Shop early to get the popular Matilija poppies and na-tive milkweed. Members get 10% off. 10am - 5:30pm.

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Price listing: member / non-member / volunteer | Register at sbbg.org/classes-events or call 805-682-4726 x102Free Public Docent Tours every Saturday and Sunday at 11am & 2pm, and Mondays at 2pm

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2 Land of Rock and Water: Inspiration Point An excursion with geologist Susie Bartz to one of Santa Barbara’s favorite views provides a new perspective to a classic hike. 9am – 1pm. $40 / $55 / $35.

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4 Monthly Volunteer Orientation See 3/7 for more information. 5 - 6:30pm.

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Annual Members Picnic

¡Feliz Cumpleaños! Members are invited to this fun, family friendly celebration in the Meadow Oaks. Buy your tickets early. Members may buy tickets for two nonmember guests. 5 - 7pm $15 adult/$10 child.

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9 Teahouse Open See 3/12 for more information. Noon - 2pm.

Classes with Photographer Saxon Holt The Garden is very pleased to bring acclaimed photographer and author, Saxon Holt back to Santa Barbara. Practice your photography skills with a master and gain a new perspective of the subtle beauty of native gardens. See his work and series of award winning ebooks at www.photobotanic.com.

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The Photographer's Eye: Revealing the beauty of native plant gardens

An inspiring presentation of beautiful native plant gardens and design tips from a garden photographer’s perspective. Reception follows in the Library. 4 - 7pm. $15 / $20.

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10 The Magic of Light: Native Plant Photography Workshop

A hands-on workshop for serious photographers. Pre-sentation on April 9th highly recommended, but not necessary to attend this very special workshop. Class limited to 15. 7am – Noon. $175 / $200.

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Spring Bird Walk

See 3/16 for more information. 8:30 – 10am. $10 / $15 / $5.

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Introduction to California Plant Families

Mary Carroll leads this overview of common California plant families. Learn the basic terminology of plant identification. 1 - 3pm. $90 / $110.

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California Native Plant Week

Look for a complete schedule of activities in gardENotes.

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Sunset in the Sandstones: La Cumbre Peak

Experience the stunning beauty of our regional land-scape, seen from the crags around La Cumbre Peak with guide Susie Bartz. Enjoy a romantic sunset and look for the full moon before heading home. 2:30pm – Sunset. $50 / $70 / $45.

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Monthly Volunteer Orientation

See 3/7 for more information. 5 – 6:30pm.

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Citizen Science Club

Learn about the projects around the region from pro-gram representatives, and join in the dialogue with fel-low citizens participating in science projects. Quarterly meetings are held in our beautiful Blaksley Library meeting room the first Tuesday of Feb, May, Aug. and Nov. 5:30 - 7pm. Free

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Teahouse Open

See 3/12 for more information. Noon – 2pm.

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Botanical Illustration: Drawing

Professional illustrator of many Floras, Dr. Linda Vorobik teaches basic botanical drawing using graphite and colored pencils. Class size limited to 12 and expected to sell out. Take with Botanical Watercolor, June 4 for series discount. 9am - 4pm. $200 / $250. Series discount $375 / $450.

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Island Trip: Santa Cruz Celebrate spring on the largest and most diverse of the California Channel Islands. Explore pine forests, wooded canyons, coastal headlands, deserted beaches, and isolated coves. Stay at the University of California station in the Central Valley for three nights. Includes gourmet meals. See website for details. $750 / $900.

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California Native Plant Society

Director of Education Frédérique Lavoipierre presents a program about native plants as the best companions to our vegetable gardens and orchards. 7 – 8:30pm. Free

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Spring Bird Walk

See 3/16 for more information. 8:30 – 10am. $10 / $15 / $5

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Bonsai Exhibition Weekend

The Bonsai Club of Santa Barbara presents its annual show of artistically trained miniature trees. Includes a bonsai demonstration each day at 1 pm. May 21, 11am – 4pm / May 22, 9am – 4 pm. Free with admission (the Teahouse will hold extended hours).

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Island Trip: Santa Rosa

Join us for a very special outing to Santa Rosa Island and explore the varied and unique flora. Over forty kinds of plants restricted to the California Channel Islands are found on this spectacular island, including the Santa Rosa Island manzanita and the Santa Rosa Island Torrey pine. $875 / $995.

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Summer Sips: Illustrating the Catalina Flora

Speaker: Linda Vorobik Join us for our opening Wine & Cheese botanical lecture as we celebrate completion of the new Catalina Island Flora. Complete descriptions for all five Summer Sips: Wine and Cheese lectures may be found on the website. 4 - 6pm. $25 / $35. Series discount $100 / $140.

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Botanical Illustration: Watercolor

Linda Vorobik's workshop teaches basic botanical paint-ing through creating plant portraits using watercolor and/or gouache. Class limited to 12 and is expected to sell out. 9am - 4pm. $200 / $250 (series discount). $375 / $450.

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Monthly Volunteer Orientation

See 3/7 for more information. 5 – 6:30pm.

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Create Your Own Bonsai

Take home your own unique bonsai. Workshop includes pot, plant, supplies and expert instruction. Learn the art and science of shaping and caring for bonsai. 9am - 4pm. $30 / $40.

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Teahouse Open

See 3/12 for more information. Noon – 2pm.

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Spring Bird Walk

See 3/16 for more information. 8:30 – 10am. $10 / $15 / $5.

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Summer Sips: Intergalactic Plant Interactions

Speaker: Dr. Christopher Lortie Positive plant interactions have become a central theme in ecology. Here, a summary of research, implications, and opportunities are presented with a humorous Star Wars theme. Complete descriptions for all five Summer Sips: Wine and Cheese lectures may be found on the website. 4 - 6pm. $25 / $35 (series discount). $100 / $140.

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Native Herbal Medicine

Many of our California native plants have traditional uses. Join Emily Sanders and learn about some of the medicinal uses of native plants. 10am - Noon. $25 / $35.


Free Public Docent Tours every Saturday and Sunday at 11am & 2pm, and Mondays at 2pm


SAVE TH E DATE!

Wildflower Safaris Spring 2016. Don’t miss out! Sign up for gardENotes for updates on locations and dates for wildflower safaris and other classes, events, and Garden activities.

Summer Sips: Why would a Western Pond Turtle Care About Native Plants? July 16. Speaker: Dr Nick Geist. Complete descriptions for all five Summer Sips: Wine and Cheese lectures may be found on the website. 4 - 6pm. $25 / $35. Series discount $100 / $140.

Summer Sips: So this Plant Walks into a Bar . . . August 20. Speaker Dr. Matt Kay. Complete descriptions for all five Summer Sips: Wine and Cheese lectures may be found on the website. 4 - 6pm. $25 / $35. Series discount $100 / $140.

Natural History of the Channel Islands Tuesdays: Sept.13, 20, 27 / Oct. 11, 18, 25 / Nov. 1, 8, 15, 22. Complete descriptions may be found on the website. Tuesdays, 4 - 5:30 pm. $95 / $125.

California Naturalist Certification Wednesdays: Sept. 7, 14, 21, 28 / Oct. 5, 12, 19, 26 / Nov. 2, 9. Field Trips: TBD. 4 -7 pm. $360.

Summer Sips: A Celebration of Condors Sept. 17. Speaker Dr. Estelle Sandhaus. Complete descriptions for all five Summer Sips: Wine and Cheese lectures may be found on the website. 4 - 6pm. $25 / $35. Series discount $100 / $140.

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ASK theEXPERTASK theEXPERT

Bruce Reed, Garden Horticulturist

What should I plant now that the rains have come?

With a few good, long-lasting rains (and the reasonable hope of a few more in the forecast) our soils are now more consistently moist. Soils are somewhat like sponges in slow-motion: each wet particle moistens the particles next to it, diffusing water into the wider profile.

Seeding of annuals is the first task for the first moist moment of the season. Delicate beauties for the shady garden, like baby blue eyes (Ne-

mophila menziesii) or Chinese houses (Collinsia heterophylla) are now more commonly available from many nurseries and are excellent under oaks or other large trees. Once you sow, rake lightly to ensure more contact between the seeds and true soil. Very small seeds such as this only need to be barely covered in order to germinate well. Occasional watering in the first three to four weeks after sowing will probably be necessary unless our rains are beyond expectation.

Part sun to full sun annuals can also be sown now in the same way, including California poppy (Eschscholzia californica), tidy-tips (Layia platyglossa), goldfields (Lasthenia), bird’s eye gilia (Gilia tricolor) and many others.

The drought may not be over, and it’s hard to know how long we will have a moist winter. Make the most of it now!

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JAPANESE ARTS & CULTURE FESTIVAL

Bonsai Exhibition | MAY 21 + 22Music Origami Calligraphy Ikebana

Special Japanese Teahouse hours to observe

Chado - The Way of Tea

Bonsai Workshop | JUN 11Special offer for registrations at the Bonsai Exhibition

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1/ Betsy Green volunteers at the Garden and attended the birding class as a refresher for the Santa Barbara Christmas Bird Count in January. 2/ Rebecca Coulter with the group catching a glimpse of a juvenile Cooper’s Hawk soaring through the sky. 3/ The Warner Sisters, Jane, Susan and Sally enjoy a Morning Bird Walk - Each month, the Garden offers the chance to walk with naturalist leader Rebecca Coulter in search of a variety of birds inhabiting the Garden’s grounds, trees, and sky.

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4/ Gloris Barber, (seated in blue) former Garden docent surrounded by family from Colorado, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Seattle celebrating her 90th birthday, including a ribbon cutting in the Library for the donation of a commercial grade paper cutter in her name. 5/ Chiji Ochiagha and Amy Genduso examine specimens under a microscope at the 2016 Docent Training - Sixteen individuals from different backgrounds signed up for the training, which included basic classes in botany, horticulture, ecology, and Garden history, with an emphasis on environmental interpretation. 6/ The 2016 Santa Barbara Beer Garden Committee, led by Chris Parker, met monthly to plan the event, create new community business partnerships, and to sample the area’s local brews. From bottom left clockwise: Brittney Burrows, Zachary Rosen, Chris Parker, Marisa Demourkas, Hayden Gower, Hattie Husbands, Sarah Berkus Gower, Jesse Smith, Steve Windhager, Jeremy Bassan, Robert Lewis. Other Beer Garden Committee Members not pictured are Kieran Osborne and Tim Morton Smith

Wednesday, April 6 & Thursday, April 7

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Tickets on sale at sbbg.orgor (805) 682-4726, x102CELEBRATING

THE GARDEN’S 90TH ANNIVERSARY

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The Garden is pleased to welcome Dr. Heather E. Schneider as the new Rare Plant Biologist on the Conservation and Re-search team. She will focus on the most vulnerable of Califor-nia’s native plants, those 1,300 rare or endangered species.

Heather received her Ph.D. in Plant Biology from the University of California, Riverside, in 2010, with a focus on plant ecology and invasive species. Following graduation, she worked as an Ecologist for the US Geological Survey for two years before ac-cepting a postdoctoral fellowship at UC Santa Barbara in 2013.

According to Dr. Denise Knapp, Director of Conservation and Research at the Garden, “Heather’s diverse research back-ground gives her the tools she will need to address the threats facing rare plants which can be at any biological level from genes to ecosystems.”

As a plant ecologist, Heather studies the relationships between plants and their environment. Her research on the effects of atmospheric nitrogen pollution in California’s deserts demonstrated how native plants use added nitrogen compared to invasive species and suggested potential scenar-ios that could enable the survival of native annual plants in areas currently dominated by invasive species. Her research in evolutionary biology seeks to predict how plants might adapt to the changing climate via changes in petal size, bloom times

and pollination system, for example.

Heather starts work at the Garden in March, conducting rare plant surveys in the Central Valley, the Central Coast, and the Channel Islands. This initial research will help set priorities for expanding the Garden's current rare plant program started by Dr. Dieter Wilken.

Growing up in the Chicago area, Heather spent a lot of time camping and hiking. Each year, her mother created a field of native wildflowers in their yard and Heather grew up munching on berries and fruits grown in their own garden. Her mother is a biologist whose knowledge of the plant world became a natural part of Heather’s experience.

Heather is excited to be working here because, as she says, “botanic gardens are embedded in their communities and pro-vide a natural space for science to develop practical knowl-edge and to enrich people’s understanding of and appreciation for nature.”

RARE PLANT BIOLOGIST Joins the Conservation and Research Team

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Dr. Heather E. Schneider

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What could be more exciting to our Garden community than the prospect of a refreshingly wet spring courtesy of El Niño?

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Meeting the designers of the renovated Home Demon-stration Garden and newly planted Wooded Dell with friends and family members.

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Enjoying cupcakes in honor of the Garden’s 90TH an-niversary while taking in another spectacular show of wildflowers in the Meadow.

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Seeing how fast you can find your way through the coy-ote brush Maze, with or without the help of a child.

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NATIVE GARDENS TOUR COMES HOMEFOR A BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION

Work continues feverishly at the Pritzlaff Conservation Center - although mostly inside the building, where it is harder to see. The interior walls have all been framed with metal studs (no wood was used in the build-ing’s construction) and fire sprinklers, HVAC, plumbing, and electrical are being installed. The windows even have glass in them. The basic structure of the rill, a 150 foot long by 3 feet wide concrete trench, has been completed. The rill will be partially filled with soil and planted with horsetail, and act as a bioswale to gather and filter storm water runoff before it enters the detention tanks located under the sidewalk. Stairs to the second story deck are being completed and work on the considerable amount of stonework needed at the site is underway. We anticipate an early May 2016 completion date for the building.

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THROUGH JANUARY 2016By Betsy Collins

HELP CELEBRATE OUR 90TH ANNIVERSARY on Sunday, May 1 when our annual native gardens tour, Cultivating the Wild, literally comes home. From 11am – 4pm, members and the general public are invited to explore our new gardens and meet the designers and garden professionals who created them. The day starts with a cupcake reception overlooking the Meadow in bloom at 11am. Programming and special tours will continue throughout the day with a food truck on hand to keep you nour-ished on your journey.

May 1 is also the last day of the Spring Plant Sale, so don’t forget to bring home some natives for your own garden!

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