SPECIAL EDITION
VOLUME 27, NUMBER 2
GARDEN PLAYHOUSES DESIGNED WITH NATURE IN MIND at the SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN
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CONSERVATION NEWS
IRONWOOD Volume 27, Number 2 | Summer 2019 ISSN 1068-4026 EDITOR Flannery Hill DESIGNER Paula Schaefer Ironwood is published quarterly by the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, a private nonprofit institution founded in 1926. The Garden conserves California native plants and habitats for the health and well-being of people and the planet. The Garden is a member of the American Public Gardens Association, the American Alliance of Museums, the California Association of Museums, and the American Horticultural Society. ©2019 Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. All rights reserved.
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DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE Outdoor activities for all ages Many of us remember our childhoods, when our parents told us to “Go outside and play!” We hope parents bring their kids to the Garden and encourage them to do the same. Our newest exhibition, Garden Casitas: Playhouses Designed with Nature in Mind opened on July 1, 2019. It features a series of fun, interactive playhouses designed by local architects, artists, design-build firms, students, and Garden volunteers. These playhouses were inspired by our childhood memories and created with (mostly) natural materials. We hope Garden Casitas will continue to inspire children and their families to explore the Garden. It’s a great setting for kids, with countless things to see, hear, smell, feel and generally get them (and their parents) comfortable with exploring the outdoors again. The next step for many may be the Los Padres back country, where they will recognize many of the plants from the Garden! I have heard from many of our members that they plan to visit this exhibition again and again between now and the end of December. Since our exhibition opening, Garden visitation has increased by 53% for the first half of July, compared to 2018. The number of children in the Garden has also doubled since 2018, and teen visitation has increased by 40%. And I have to admit, I am not sorry to hear the disappointment from kids when their parents tell them it’s time to leave! To complement Garden Casitas, we have a number of family-focused activities, like Family-Friendly Garden Exploration, Fairy Homes & Nature Crafts, and Herbal First Aid Kits for Families. And of course, we will also have plenty to do if you prefer more sedate activities, including a special performance from The Channel Islands Orchestral Suite, and our popular wine and cheese Summer Sips events, to name a few. Whatever brings you, I hope you visit the Garden this summer. There are so many interesting things to do and see – we truly have something for everyone! See you in the Garden,
Steve Windhager, Ph.D. Executive Director
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Photos top to bottom: Understory, Big-eared Woodrat House, and Halfling House
Go Outside and Play! By Heidi Whitman, Director of Development & Communications Photos: Randy Wright “Go outside and play!” It’s a familiar directive heard by kids who were raised before the advent of computer games, 400-plus television channels and hand-held devices. Outdoor play helped many of us use our imaginations, learn to be independent, take risks and develop a love for the natural world. We spent hours exploring, building forts, and observing nature up close. Time spent playing outside nurtured a life-long love of nature, an appreciation for conservation and more than a few careers in the sciences. We are hopeful that our newest exhibition at the Garden will encourage a new generation of kids to go outside in the garden and play! The Garden’s new exhibition, Garden Casitas: Playhouses Designed with Nature in Mind, is a juried exhibition that features six playhouses designed by local architects, design-build firms, students and volunteers. Each playhouse was selected based on the design, use of plantbased materials, and interactivity. A “loose parts” area encourages kids to create and build their own structures, and a balance beam lovingly crafted from a fallen oak beckons kids to climb. The playhouses can all be found by the popular Centennial Children’s Maze in the west side of the Garden through December 2019. What does it take to create an exhibit in a wild part of the garden? The Garden started with an idea about a year ago. Working with the local chapter of the American Institute for Architects (AIA) and the local contractors’ association, the Garden sent out a request for designs. Advertised on social media and on the Garden’s website, Garden staff really did not know who would respond or what to expect. “We are thrilled with the selected playhouses,” said Garden executive director Steve Windhager. Then the real transformation began with pruning, weed whipping and mulching. Finally, the playhouses were delivered and assembled by the designbuild teams, the sites were mulched and the signs were installed. Now we just need to add Garden visitors!
Meet the Playhouses Cali-Pop
Inspired by California’s favorite wildflower, the California poppy, and its home outdoors, Cal Poly Pomona student and designer Philip Gann designed the Cali-Pop casita to be wide open to the elements. Featuring benches and a wooden jungle gym, Cali-Pop is designed for all
ages. The outward facing benches invite adults to sit and rest while they reflect on the landscape of the canyon in front of them. Behind the benches is a tunnel and ladder structure imploring kids to discover and climb. On the interiors, mainly visible to children, illustrative narratives of the California Poppy can be found throughout the structure and in the wooden tunnel. The Cali-Pop is constructed of redwood, a California native plant.
Understory
Architect Akiko Wade Davis of Santa Barbara designed Understory to be under or adjacent to the trees to mimic the shape of an enormous redwood tree stump. Built by John Lambe Construction, a hidden passageway leads you inside to an open space in the center which offers a place to pause and look up towards the tree canopies and sky above to appreciate the grandeur of our native oaks. The structure is built with rustic pine and eucalyptus poles, complete with bark.
Big-eared Woodrat House
Woodrats build the most amazing nests and Betsy Lape’s Big-eared Woodrat House casita is no exception. This life-sized woodrat house is made from willows, manzanita, ceanothus, oak and other sticks and branches harvested from the Garden. Some species of woodrat are commonly known as “packrats” for their characteristic accumulation of food and debris on or near their dens. These collections, called “middens,” may include bones, sticks, shiny metal objects, and innumerable items discarded by or “borrowed” from humans. The Big-eared Woodrat House has a few sparkly things that have been acquired to decorate the playhouse, just like real woodrats would have done. The playhouse was designed by the Garden’s living collections coordinator Betsy Lape, and constructed by Lape’s family and friends.
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Rings of Time
Both Architect Marc Whitman and Designer Tara Saylor spent many hours climbing on, swinging beneath or dreaming around trees. Their collaboration, Rings of Time, resembles a willow tree and tree rings can be found inside on the floor of the structure. For the designers, the willow tree is a symbol of balance, learning, growth and harmony. The willow is flexible and adaptable, and one of the few trees that can bend in outrageous poses without snapping. The playhouse is made of materials found in Whitman’s canyon home above Ojai including poles and shingles salvaged from dead trees that burned in the Thomas Fire.
Halfling House
A modern take on an above ground fantasy hobbit hole, a casita designed and built by Frank Schipper Construction of Santa Barbara is intended to spark the imagination of children and adults. Constructed of standard wood building materials, the casita demonstrates the incredible versatility of this natural material which has been used for thousands of years to provide shelter for people. Wood can be cut into all kinds of shapes and sizes to fit practically any construction need, as this playhouse demonstrates. Don’t forget to step inside the Halfling House to see the rainbow-colored skylights.
The Hives
Volunteers, like the pollinators that frequent the Garden, are critical to everything that we do. So when the volunteers heard about the opportunity to participate in the exhibition, the Hives were created. Built from redwood, the hives were constructed over three weekends from over 1000 pieces of wood using plans that were available on the internet. The traditional bee skep shape reminds kids and adults of the importance of pollinators in the Garden. Over 40,000 visitors including families from throughout the tri-counties are expected to enjoy the exhibition, which will be on display from July through December 2019. Educational programming to complement the exhibition and several special exhibition-related events are planned during its six-month run. The exhibit was made possible with help from our generous sponsors including Northern Trust, Bunnin Chevrolet, Agromin, The Easter Team Realtors, and Fidelity National Title Group Santa Barbara. Please visit our website at sbbg.org for additional information.
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Photos top to bottom: Rings of Time, The Hives, and Cali-pop
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Conservation Corner
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This spring, the Conservation and Research Ecology Team has been working to document invertebrate biodiversity and ecological interactions on the Channel Islands. Invertebrate biodiversity has remained largely understudied on the Channel Islands, with new taxa still being discovered. As part of a three-year project funded by the U.S. Navy, conservation staff are conducting general invertebrate surveys across San Clemente Island. We have collected thousands of specimens and will work with many collaborators to curate and identify these over the next year. Early indications suggest that the known terrestrial invertebrate fauna of San Clemente Island will increase substantially. In addition to general invertebrate surveys, we are looking at the interactions between insect pollinators and many rare and endangered plants, like the federally endangered San Clemente Island woodland star, Lithophragma maximum. Pollination is an interaction that is critical to the survival of many plants. Studying the interactions between rare plants, the surrounding plant community, and the pollinators that use them will help us to recognize the interactions most critical to supporting these plant communities. It has been an especially good year to conduct invertebrate and pollinator surveys on San Clemente Island, which experienced its own super bloom this spring. We’ve been able to document many species of beautiful bees and other pollinators, and expect to uncover more exciting discoveries, as we process and identify thousands of specimens.
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Photos clockwise from top: A alfalfa looper moth visits Lithophragma maximum at dawn, Lithophragma maximum, Casey Richart, Ph.D., Stephanie Calloway, Conservation Technician, Denise Knapp, Ph.D. and volunteer Cedric Lee pose for a selfie on San Clemente Island
By Heather Schneider, Ph.D., Rare Plant Biologist Lompoc yerba santa (hereafter LYS; Eriodictyon capitatum) is a federally endangered and state-listed rare perennial shrub that is only known from just five occurrences in western Santa Barbara County and nowhere else in the world. LYS grows in chaparral and thrives on disturbance: fire, the death of its neighbors, trail maintenance, etc. all create opportunities for LYS to reproduce. In robust chaparral, it can be easy to miss its curved, scraggly branches sticking out of neighboring shrubs.
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the other hand, appears to be much less common. We suspect that most populations of LYS lack enough genetic diversity to produce viable seeds and, thus, are relegated to clonal reproduction. One LYS location produces seeds prolifically and the rare plant team at the Garden took advantage of that to learn about the germination ecology of LYS. For the last several months, the Garden’s Rare Plant Biologist and Rare Plant Technician have been conducting a germination experiment using LYS seeds collected in the fall of 2018. Nothing is known about the germination of LYS, but some of Lompoc yerba santa (Eriodictyon capitatum) the more common yerba santas have been studied.
LYS frequently reproduces vegetatively by sending up new sprouts from underground roots. Ground disturbance can stimulate new root sprout production and stems observed 10 feet apart could represent a single genetic clone. Sexual reproduction (i.e., seed production), on
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Where the Wild Things Play!
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o you remember your first experience playing in nature? Was it splashing in a nearby stream? Climbing a favorite tree? Building a driftwood fort on a local beach? Who was with you? And did you invent a fantasy world around your experience?
Growing up in suburban San Diego, I was fortunate enough to have a mountain in my front yard, whose west-facing slope, dotted with Salvia, Heteromeles, Eriogonum, and Malossma served as my portal to the natural world. This is where I would spend hours wandering among the chaparral plants, spotting rattlesnakes, and appreciating the solitude of being off the beaten path. When I was about eight years old, I became infatuated with the invertebrates of the mountain and would wander the slopes above my house collecting specimens for display. Although my interests changed as I grew older, I always found myself returning to the mountainside in search of genuine adventure and wisdom. Without fail, the mountain taught me lifelong lessons about confidence, ingenuity, and respect for the natural world. Of course, all that took place before computers and cell phones and worries about safety. As a child, I had long stretches of unstructured time and I was fortunate to have easy access to a natural environment. I am certain that those early, positive experiences contributed to my desire to become an environmental educator, and I treasure the opportunity to be part of the Garden’s effort to give this generation of wildly imaginative eight-year-olds the opportunity to lose and find themselves in nature. Philosophers, academics, naturalists, and others have long celebrated the benefits of spending time surrounded by nature and all
it holds. I was long past eight years old when I discovered the work of the late poet Mary Oliver. She so beautifully captures how nature inspires and changes us in her poem, Sleeping in the Forest1: I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths among the branches of the perfect trees. All night I heard the small kingdoms breathing around me, the insects, and the birds who do their work in the darkness. All night I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling with a luminous doom. By morning I had vanished at least a dozen times into something better. But the value of spending time in open spaces ranging from city parks to vast wilderness areas to “sleeping in the forest”, goes beyond the fantastic ache we all feel when we see an expanse of poppies or witness a butterfly emerge from its chrysalis. A growing body of peer-reviewed literature in the fields of conservation biology, education, and psychology is providing quantitative evidence that time spent in nature provides a host of benefits ranging from improved cognition to decreased blood pressure and stress (McMahan and Estes, 2015). Despite our inherent and increasingly quantified understanding of nature’s benefits on numerous aspects of our lives, our society is collectively spending less and less time “imbibing nature’s tonic.” S U M M E R 2019 Ironwood
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For children—particularly low-income children who may not have access to safe, natural spaces–this “nature deficit” (a term coined by author Richard Louv), may have unknown negative consequences. We’ve heard a lot about the spike in the amount of time kids spend in front of television, video game or cell phone screens. One 2015 studyii noted that kids aged 8-12 spent 4.5 hours every day in front of a screen, and 13-18 year-olds clocked in 6.5 hours of screen time every day. While technology itself is not inherently the problem, this data suggest that with only so many hours in a day, time spent engaging with nature may be losing out to time spent engaging with a cell phone. Indeed, it has been documented that the average US youth spends less than one hour outside each day
and about half the time their parents spent outside as children2. Add in the obesity epidemic that has swept our society and it’s plain to see that something must be done to facilitate unstructured playtime in natural areas. GARDEN CASITAS It all starts with making a connection. Through decades of nature education work here at the Garden, we know that getting kids excited about nature isn’t about presenting a set of facts or charts or even cool maps. It’s about connecting with their senses, their imaginations, their inherent sense of story and play. The Garden’s new exhibit—Garden Casitas: Playhouses Designed with Nature in Mind (on view July 1 through December 31, 2019)—does just that. A whimsical and inviting collection of
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six full-size playhouses, the Garden Casitas offer children multiple ways to actively explore and interact with the natural world. Constructed primarily of plant-based materials, the Garden Casitas are tucked into the western edge of the Garden and are designed to surprise and delight. The Hives offer an intriguing climbing space; the Halfling House evokes our own version of Middle Earth; and the Woodrat House presents a kid-sized view of a woodrat abode, complete with the imaginary builder’s shiny stolen trinkets. Foremost, they are places of play, exploration and self-discovery -- all extremely important ingredients for learning at all levels. The Garden Casitas invite children and families to spend unstructured time just playing in a natural setting, helping to build their comfort level in exploring spaces that feel a little more wild. The play-oriented focus of the Garden Casitas project is entirely intentional. By creating a setting where children can discover nature’s gifts and pleasures in a near-organic way, we hope to set the stage for the next set of experiences. Using the concept of scaffolding—or building a network of experiences and information to place new information in context—learners (children and adults) gradually develop advanced skills and a more nuanced understanding of a topic. As the learner gains more fluency and sophistication in the subject being studied, they become more independent in their discovery, having
gradually developed those tools over time. Garden Casitas is an important foundational and educational scaffold. It’s about being playful, exploring, and building those first positive experiences in nature. Another important educational concept is differentiation. Similar to scaffolding, it recognizes each child as an individual on a journey of learning. In particular, differentiation compels the instructor to meet each person “where they’re at” in terms of their knowledge and experiences. Differentiation explains why an exhibit such as Garden Casitas can be so powerful. The six casitas on display were selected to draw children and visitors into the Garden and encourage them to experience California’s flora from a different perspective. Each structure is unique and encourages a different type of interaction. THE NEXT STEP: THE BACKCOUNTRY GARDEN In the coming years, we hope to tie many of these threads together with the Garden’s newest project—The Backcountry Garden. This 1.5-acre space located between the Children’s Maze and the lower creek crossing will be a place for adventure and exploration. The project will create a child-centered natural play space, building on the Garden Casitas experience and filling a need for unstructured play for children in a natural environment. By offering a safe, immersive experience in a vibrant natural space, children will have the opportunity for self-directed discovery that will fuel the imagination, inventiveness and creativity that is often lost in more directive play environments. Designed primarily for elementary school-aged children and above, the Backcountry will combine elements of play, nature exploration, and wildcrafting. The project will feature natural materials arranged in 10 themed play spaces that will ignite exploration, creativity and discovery of the natural environment. Through interpretive signage and minimal guidance from Nature Educators, children will be encouraged to play in nature, from climbing trees and building forts, to rolling down a hill and picking flowers. The project will allow children to author their own experiences of wilderness and become comfortable in
a natural setting. Children will discover opportunities to climb, swing, run, sit, contemplate, and imagine in a way that is not being directed by anyone but the kids themselves. It will set them up to be ready to explore the Los Padres backcountry or the Channel Islands in the future. CONNECTING THE DOTS You might say that the guiding principal of the Garden’s education programs draws on an iconic statement made by Baba Dioum, a Senegalese forestry engineer in 1968: “For in the end, we will conserve only that which we love; we will love only that which we understand; and we will understand only that which we have been taught.” The Garden Casitas and the Backcountry Garden projects help us encourage a relationship between children and nature that they may not have had access to before. But to reach the next hopedfor levels on the scaffold—understanding and conservation—we must focus on how we connect all the elements of our education and engagement strategies. Over the decades, our School Tours program has inspired and educated tens of thousands of local students. And our camps and workshops have deepened an experience of nature for hundreds more. Today, the Garden utilizes technology—and, yes, a little screen time—to enhance and complement a child’s experience in nature. Our newly renovated Plant Lab, established in the Arroyo Room under the Garden Shop, gives students of all ages hands-on experience with professional-grade microscopes to reveal the hidden world of a poppy seed or observe the intricate structures of a pollinator. Instructors can broadcast an image to iPads or a large central screen to specifically highlight particular phenomena. Earlier this summer, I experienced the Plant Lab while Dr. Scott Cooper identified insects and other macroinvertebrates collected in Mission Creek by teens from our X-Stream Science Team. The X-Stream Science Team (XSST) is an inquiry-based, intensive program for junior-high and high-school students. The program gives students the opportunity to engage in hands-on science, outreach, restoration and stewardship activities with the Garden serving as a living classroom and research lab for the XSST’s place-based inquiry. I can easily envision the children I see exploring the Woodrat House today joining the XSST in years to come. What was your first experience in nature? I hope you’ll have the opportunity to share that story with someone, perhaps a partner or a friend, or perhaps a child in your life. Better yet, bring the child here to play among the Garden Casitas and let her begin a story of her own. "Free the Kids." Digv2. Accessed July 19, 2019. dirtisgood.com/stories/free-the-kids.html. "Children Spend Only Half as Much Time Playing outside as Their Parents Did." The Guardian. July 27, 2016. theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/27/ children-spend-only-half-the-time-playing-outside-as-their-parents-did. ii Common Sense Media, 2015
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GARDEN People LEFT COLUMN The Garden's Dr. Matt Guilliams, Ken and Shirley Tucker plant systematist and herbarium curator, and Dr. Kristen Hasenstab-Lehman, the Garden's conservation geneticist and lab manager on a trip to Los Coronados Islands. Photo by M. Guilliams
Putting finishing touches on flower-arrangements during “Bring the Wild Inside” class. Photo by H. Wehnau
Members fly kites at the Members' Picnic. Photo by S. Ranes
MIDDLE COLUMN Patti Jacquemain at the unveiling of her mosaic “After the Rains” in the Courtyard. Photo by S. Bloodworth
Volunteer of the Year recipient Pam Hasler with Steve Windhager, Ph.D., Betty Gerig, and Kathy Castaneda at the volunteer luncheon. Photo by R. Wright
A Garden field trip to Mt. Pinos in the Mojave Desert. Photo by R. Wright
Instagram influencer, @thetravelingchild and her husband snap a selfie in the Garden on a visit with Visit Santa Barbara’s “The Vacationist” 2019 Influencer Campaign. Photo: C. Rosell
RIGHT COLUMN Scot Pipkin, Director of Education and Engagement leads a “Greet the Day” walk in the Garden. Photo by M. Cyr
Rita Boss, Membership Associate and Stacy Bloodworth, Membership and Visitor Services Manager welcome current and future members to their new membership office. Photo by R. Wright
Nancy Vivrette receives her 40 year service pin at the volunteer luncheon. Photo by R. Wright
Horticulture team wildflower exploring on the Aliso Trail. Photo by K. Castaneda
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Introducing New Plant-Based Membership Cards As many of you have already discovered, our new membership cards are now made entirely of paper! They also include a scannable barcode that will make checking in faster and easier for all of our members. Rather than writing down your name and member number in the Member Express Log, you are now able to scan your card at the kiosk to confirm your membership instantly. Please give us your feedback about using these cards, whether you love them or not. We are always looking for ways to improve your experience at the Garden.
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Summer Blooms
Want to see what’s blooming in the Summer as you get ready for Fall planting? Join us for a presentation and walking tour to soak up the summer beauty many people walk right by. 4 p.m.–6 p.m. $20/$30
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9, 16 Learn how to capture the structure and beauty of native 23,30 wildflowers in vibrant watercolor in this introductory course on watercolor basics. Discover how to mix colors that mirror our native flora and create shadows that make your botanicals jump off the page. Noon–3 p.m. $75/$95 C. LAM
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Join Emily Sanders to learn about local plant allies that help calm the nerves, sooth sore muscles, relieve tension, and increase overall relaxation. You’ll make your own herbal stress relief kit to soothe anxiety and tension. 2 p.m.–5 p.m. $65/$85 Summer Sips: What Wines and Lichens Have in Common
Join us to learn about the intricate secret lives of lichens, the link between wines and lichens, and why lichen conservation is so complicated. 4 p.m.–6 p.m. $25/$35
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Natural History of the Channel Islands
15,22 Discover California’s own Galapagos in this compre29 hensive course of the Channel Islands. Learn about the climate, geology, plants, animals, native peoples, human SEP 5,12 history, threats and management by the Garden’s 19,26 Director of Conservation & Research Denise Knapp. OCT 4:30 p.m.–6 p.m. $95/$125 3, 10 AUG
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Join Amelia Neal for an empowering slow flow yoga class with an unforgettable view from the Pritzlaff Conservation Center patio. 6 p.m.–7 p.m. Free/$15 S. WILSON
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Discover alternatives to the “perfect lawn” that save both money and resources in this lawn conversion course. Learn native design ideas, alternative uses of the space, site preparation, a step-by-step action plan, and more. 8:30 a.m.–noon $35/$50 The Channel Islands Orchestral Suite
The Channel Islands Orchestral Suite by Ashley Broder was commissioned by Dr. KuanFen Liu and the Channel Islands Chamber Orchestra in 2017 with a premiere set for October 2019. This event will include a slide show of the islands and its biodiversity, accompanied by a lecture from biologist William Hoyer. Live musical excerpts of the new piece will be performed by members of the Channel Islands Chamber Orchestra. 4 p.m.–6 p.m. Free Greet the Day Morning Stroll
Greet the day while building your nature knowledge on this morning walk with our Director of Education and Engagement Scot Pipkin. 8:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Free/$5 Vinyasa Flow Yoga in the Garden
Aliza Lederman’s Vinyasa Flow class is an empowering, energetic flow that builds strength and balance inside and out. 6 p.m.–7 p.m. Free/$15
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13,20 Create a nature journal while developing the skills of 27 observation and documentation while relaxing in the natural beauty of the Garden. 4 p.m.–6 p.m. $50/$75 OCT 4
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4, 11 The Garden is proud to offer the UC Extension Certified 18,25 California Naturalist Program, which fosters a committed corps of volunteer naturalists and citizen scientists trained OCT 2,9 and ready to take an active role in local natural resource 16,23 conservation, education, and restoration. 4 p.m.–7 p.m. 30 $360 Space is limited. NOV
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See August 28. 8:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Free/$5 Radical Remedies in your Region: Douglas Family Preserve
Join local herbalist Emily Sanders to learn about the native medicinal plants that grow in our region. During this morning walk at the Douglas Family Preserve, you will learn about the folk, medicinal, and culinary uses of herbs, trees, and shrubs that grow in our own backyard. 10a.m.–Noon $25/$35 Summer Sips: Capturing the Secret World of Wildlife
Ben Teton explores how wildlife camera trapping is revolutionizing our ability to conserve wildlife, explore our environment and connect with the natural world. 4 p.m.–6 p.m. $25/$35 Fairy Homes & Nature Crafts
Bring the magic of nature home and create your own fairy house or nature craft in this special outdoor workshop. Guests and families are invited to drop in and work with natural and recycled materials while enjoying a morning under the Garden’s oaks. 10 a.m.–1 p.m. $10/$15 per participant Slow Flow Yoga in the Garden
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Learn about some of our most beautiful California native bulbs and how to care for them in your garden. A special emphasis will be placed on the culture, planting, and division of bulbs available at the Garden’s Fall Plant Sale. 10 a.m.–11 a.m. $15/$25 Botanical Painting: Fruits and Form
Drawing and painting three dimensional botanical subjects with emphasis in capturing form. Values, brightness, and cool versus warm colors can all be used to make a painted image appear three dimensional. All levels welcome. 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m. $150/$175 Morning Bird Walk
Expert naturalist Rebecca Coulter leads a morning group in watching and listening for the diverse and beautiful birds that make the Meadow, woodlands, and creek side their home. 8:30 a.m.–10 a.m. $10/$15 Carpinteria Bluffs and Marsh
Join the Garden for a walk in the Carpinteria Marsh and along the Carpinteria Bluffs. Topics for discussion include plant identification, ecology, and land use history of these two precious southern California resources. 9 a.m.–2:30 p.m. $35/$45 Vinyasa Flow Yoga in the Garden
See August 28. 6 p.m.–7 p.m. Free/$15
See August 14. 6 p.m.–7 p.m. Free/$15
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NATIVE PLANT SALE
Find over 400 species and varieties of plants with experts available to help you choose. Free admission to shop.
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Don't miss this special shopping opportunity including music, food, & expert advice. Space is limited. RSVP at sbbg.org
Visit sbbg.org for more information and special classes happening during the sale: Native Edible Landscapes, Gardening in Small Spaces, One-OnOne Garden Consultations, and more!
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