Get Inspired! Explore Santa Barbara's Public Gardens

Get Inspired! Explore Santa Barbara's Public Gardens

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    Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
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Here are just a few of Santa Barbara’s unique and wonderful public gardens. Click on Additional Activities for many more gardens and activities.

CASA DEL HERRERO
A National Historic Landmark, the estate garden is one of the few remaining as originally designed during the Golden Age of American Gardens (1895-1940).
www.casadelherrero.com

GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND
A 37-acre botanical estate garden containing subtropical and tropical plants from around the world.
www.lotusland.org

ALICE KECK PARK MEMORIAL GARDEN
Long considered the jewel of the Santa Barbara City park system, this downtown park features unique botanical and horticultural elements in an exquisite urban retreat.
Visit The Website

SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN
One of the nation’s oldest botanic gardens focused exclusively on native plants and has one of the state’s largest collections of California native plants.
www.sbbg.org

RANCHO LA PATERA & STOW HOUSE
The gardens and Arboretum are a surviving example of the late 19th/early 20th century Picturesque style garden, characterized by specimen trees from around the world.
www.stowhouse.com

 

 

Santa Barbara Public Gardens Partnership is a county-wide collaboration whose
mission is to promote awareness of our unique and inspiring public gardens,
celebrate their beauty and benefits, and encourage their year-round enjoyment
by visitors and residents of the Santa Barbara community.