Art Exhibitions
Visual Art Art and gardens. The pairing dates back millennia. Each year, the Santa Fe Botanical Garden partners with artists across the nation to bring sculpture and visual art to the Garden. Past Exhibitons [...]
Visual Art Art and gardens. The pairing dates back millennia. Each year, the Santa Fe Botanical Garden partners with artists across the nation to bring sculpture and visual art to the Garden. Past Exhibitons [...]
Scientific name: Arctostaphylos × coloradensis 'Panchito' Common name: 'Panchito' manzanita Family: Ericaceae (Heath) Distribution: Cultivar discovered in Colorado Hardiness: USDA Zones 4b -8 Life form: Shrub/sub-shrub Article by Eva Maria Räpple Description Arctostaphylos × coloradensis 'Panchito'. Photo: Cristina Salvador Little pink-white flowers drooping under oval green [...]
Scientific name: Verbascum thapsus L. Common name: mullein, common mullein, wooly mullein, barbasco Family: Scrophulariaceae (Figwort) Verbascum thapsus flowers. Photo credit: Suzanne CadwellCC BY-NC 4.0. N.C. Cooperative Extension. Native distribution: Eurasia, North Africa Habitat: Disturbed areas, plains, hillsides, fields, roadsides Height: 2-7 feet [...]
Scientific name: Vernonia missurica Raf. Common name: Missouri ironweed Plant family: Asteraceae By Linda Churchill Among the many attractive flowering plants of autumn, Missouri ironweed stands out. Intense purple flowers grace the top of this stately plant in late summer and early fall. The bright [...]
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 and right here in Santa [...]
Scientific name: Cornus sericea Common names: red twig dogwood, red osier dogwood, red osier, red brush, red willow, redstem dogwood, red-rood, American dogwood, creek dogwood, western dogwood Botanical name: Cornus sericea Family: Cornaceae Life form: Deciduous shrub By Claudia Karll Background on the name: There are [...]
Scientific name: Fallugia paradoxa Common name: Apache plume Family name: Rosaceae Article from writings of Janice Tucker (1946-2021) Every year from spring through fall in and around Santa Fe, the Apache plume returns for an encore performance with its “bloom and plume” show, appearing along the [...]
2024 Shakespeare in the Garden production will be announced soon! 2023 Shakespeare in the Garden: Much Ado About Nothing Each summer, William Shakespeare’s prose and poetry come alive in the Santa Fe Botanical Garden’ Ojos y Manos: Eyes and Hands amphitheater. Produced by Santa Fe [...]
Scientific name: Datura wrightii Regel Common names: sacred datura, sacred thornapple, jimson weed Family: Solanaceae Article by Peggy Rudberg One of the largest wildflowers in the Southwest, the showy white flowers of the Datura wrightii can spread as wide as eight inches in diameter. The cigar-shaped [...]
November 29, 2022 Photos and narrative by Kathy Haq Students in Santa Fe Community College’s Adobe Construction Program braved near-freezing temperatures on a weekend day in November to give both of the Garden’s adobe clay ovens a fresh coat of mud plaster to counter the [...]
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