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Marin Magazine

Flower PowerFlower Power
The best place to get your spring flower fix is the 55-
acre San Francisco Botanical Gardens.


Via Magazine

A Place to Vegetate
In a city where real estate is synonymous with sticker shock, it's heartwarming to find a 55-acre parcel available to everyone.

San Francisco Bay Guardian

Best of the Bay 2004
Best Place in San Francisco to Travel the World


San Francisco
Botanical Garden Press

Recent Press

Spring Plant Sale

Alice Joyce's travel blog,
Bay Area Tendrils
Visitors to Bay Area Tendrils encounter lush settings: gardens that stir the imagination, and spark dreams of a once-in-a-lifetime sojourn.
A Trove of Drought-Tolerant Plants, Colorful Succulents, Eucomis, and... >>

Eastern Australia Garden

Alice Joyce's travel blog,
Bay Area Tendrils
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.
Eastern Australia Garden >>

Garden packed with earthly delights

The new Ancient Garden at the Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum in San Francisco looks like Jurassic Park…
Garden packed with earthly delights >>

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…
Visitors time-travel at Ancient Plant Garden >>

Pacific Horticulture

Featured in the April/May/June 2008 issue of Pacific Horticulture
A Half-Century of Camellias Find a New Home at SFBG
Some parts of SF Botanical Garden start as fresh ideas for gardens in a new place. The new Camellia Species Garden actually began with someone else’s garden in a very different place. >>

Deppea Splendens

The April 30, 2008 issue of the San Francisco Chronicle includes a story about Executive Director Michael McKechnie's garden,
Cultivation can be a lifesaver for some plants >>

Via Magazine

The November 2007 issue of Via Magazine rates the Garden Bookstore as one of the Amazing Bookstores in the West.

Via Magazine

The April 2007 issue of Via Magazine lists SF Botanical Garden as one of 16 "Glorious Gardens" in the Western United States.

Lucky 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.

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.”
Splendor in the Grass at Botanical Garden >>

The American Gardener


Download the Course CatalogNew Australian Garden in San Francisco

Reprinted/used with permission from the March/April 2005 issue of The American Gardener magazine, published by the American Horticultural Society (www.ahs.org).




Press Releases

Renovated Rhododendron Garden to Bloom at San Francisco Botanical Garden


The Softer Side of the Rock:
Botanical Illustrations from the Historic Gardens of Alcatraz


Goldman Fund Awards $1 Million Grant to San Francisco Botanical Garden Society for New Center for Sustainable Gardening


"QUEEN OF THE ANDES" Blooms at San Francisco Botanical Garden


Librarian Barbara M. Pitschel receives 2006 CBHL Long Award of Merit

The Hive Advertising Creates a New Buzz
for San Francisco Botanical Garden