Take a walk on S.F.'s quiet side >>
Gray days and a lot of holiday spirit in the air this time of the year. It's a volatile mix. Did I spend too much on presents, or not enough? Did I drink too much at the office party and say something stupid to the boss? How come I don't remember? Maybe what I need is a break, a walk in the woods perhaps…
SF Gate (Native Son - Carl Nolte)
A Trove of Drought-Tolerant Plants, Colorful Succulents, Eucomis, and... >>
Visitors to Bay Area Tendrils encounter lush settings: gardens that stir the imagination, and spark dreams of a once-in-a-lifetime sojourn…
Alice Joyce's travel blog, Bay Area Tendrils
Eastern Australia Garden >>
Gardeners stop by Bay Area Tendrils to glean ideas for plant combinations, bringing artistry to beds & borders with unusual flowering perennials, shrubs and bulbs, anchored by foliage specimens…
Alice Joyce's travel blog, Bay Area Tendrils
Garden packed with earthly delights >>
The new Ancient Garden at the Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum in San Francisco looks like Jurassic Park…
San Francisco Examiner
Visitors time-travel at Ancient Plant Garden >>
Names matter. That's why the former Primitive Plant Garden at the San Francisco Botanical Garden is now the Ancient Plant Garden…
SF Gate (The Dirt)
A Half-Century of Camellias Find a New Home at SFBG >>
The new Camellia Species Garden actually began with someone else’s garden in a very different place…
Pacific Horticulture
Cultivation can be a lifesaver for some plants >>
Michael McKechnie's garden on the flanks of Buena Vista Hill is a spectacular urban oasis. McKechnie, director of the San Francisco Botanical Garden Society, has turned his typically small city lot into a keyhole-shaped courtyard surrounded, punctuated and overlaced by palms, cycads, succulents, threadleaf maples, ferns and rarities from Chile and New Zealand. More than just a garden, it's a botanical ark.
SF Gate (The Dirt)
Amazing Bookstores in the West >>
Kudos for our very own Garden Bookstore!
Via Magazine
Garden of Delight >>
Via Magazine lists SF Botanical Garden as one of 16 Glorious Gardens in the Western United States.
Via Magazine
In the July 2006 issue of Lucky Magazine, our Bookstore was featured as "the best resource for design books and cool organic gifts," in a list of favorite resources of local florist, Natalie Bowen.
Lucky Magazine
Splendor in the Grass at Botanical Garden >>
Over three decades, it grew from a mere speck into a spiky green colossus, a rare and magnificent creature far from its ancestral home. Six feet in height, it resembled, says one of its caretakers, “an exotic clump of grass on steroids.”
SF Gate
New
Australian Garden in San Francisco