The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden: An Educational and Scientific Destination
When you are looking for luscious greens and wide garden sceneries outside the Santa Barbara hotels, look into the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden is located at Mission Canyon Road in Santa Barbara, California and it is known for promoting science and education, with its native California plants and systems of strategic learning and scholarship offers. The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden focuses on pursuing advanced plant life education, at the same time providing its visitors a fulfilling experience. It is dedicated to research on, conserve, and display plants that are native in California.
The botanic garden was founded in 1925 but was only named the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden in 1939. It successfully preserved its cultural and architectural heritage as its rich legacy. Then in 2003, it was remarkably partnered with the community and the County of Santa Barbara Historic Landmarks Advisory Commission.
The native California plants that the garden exhibits are carefully and lavishly placed in beautiful landscapes that you will definitely admire. It also has a Garden Shop where you can find books, educational sources, distinctive gifts, and many more souvenirs from the garden. Educational classes are also offered by the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, for those who want to pursue their interests in Botany. It offers Botanic Garden Lectures, Seminars & Special Events, Botanical Arts & Culture, Botany & Natural History, Field Courses, and many others.
The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden keeps a library that goes with its living collection and herbarium. Its collection serves as a resource and foundation for its education and horticulture and research programs. The garden’s collections displays over 1,000 taxa of plants all over the garden and over 15,000 books and journals in the library. The herbarium on the other hand features a collection of California’s preserved central coast plants which are composed of more than 140,000 plants specimens.
The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden is open to the public seven days week, with the exclusion of holidays. Admission varies according to the visitors’ age – $58 for adults, $56 for seniors, also $56 for students, children aged 13-17, and active military, all with IDs, $54 for children aged 2-12, and free for children below 2 years old. During weekdays at 2 PM and weekends at 11 AM and 2PM, the botanic garden offers guided tours for its visitors.
With the widest collection of plants in Santa Barbara and whether for learning, research, or exploration and just looking around, the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden is surely a perfect place for everyone to see.