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Herb Festival, Spring Plant Sale, and Tomatomania®
March 20 and 21
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
We are happy to announce that Dr. James Duke will be our honored guest at this year’s Herb Festival. He is the author of The Green Pharmacy® Guide to Healing Foods: Proven Natural Remedies to Treat and Prevent More than 80 Common Health Concerns, which was published in 2009. He will give a presentation each day on foods as medicines, featuring spices especially, and will sign copies of his book.
Additionally, there will be guided tours of the herb garden, on-going speakers on garden and herb-related topics, Herb Festival Market-place, the A-Z of Herbs information booths, and the SDBG Spring Plant Sale. Back by popular demand is Tomatomania® with lectures and plenty of hybrid tomato seedlings.
Children’s activities will focus on dill, the Herb of the Year.
11:00 am - 2:00 pm, Saturday and Sunday.
Click here for more information >>
Cost: Free with admission or membership.
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Lady Bug Day
Saturday, April 24
10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Calling all young citizen scientists! Ladybugs are an important natural defense against harmful bugs and scientists from Cornell University need your help to track the ladybugs’ whereabouts. Help search for ladybugs and do ladybug-related crafts. Irene T. Hunt will be reading and signing her new book with many pictures from our very own San Diego Botanic Garden.
Cost: Free with admission or membership. Small fee for some crafts.
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Chocolate Festival
Saturday, May 8
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Spend the Saturday before Mother’s Day at San Diego Botanic Garden’s famous Chocolate Festival. Enjoy dozens of delectable chocolate tastings, demonstrations, a chocolate fountain, and more. This family-friendly event also features lots of children’s activities and a variety of Mother’s Day gifts. “Tasting” tickets will be sold on site.
Cost: Free with admission or membership, plus tasting tickets as desired. |
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Palm and Cycad Sale
Saturday, May 22
9:00 am – 3:00 pm
This one-of-a-kind event features limited and rare palm and cycad species from exceptional Southern California nurseries. This event is co-hosted by the Palm Society of Southern California and San Diego Botanic Garden. For more information call Phil Bergman at 619/ 291–4605.
Cost: Free with admission or membership. |
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Encinitas Rotary Wine Festival
Presented by the Rotary Club of Encinitas to benefit local charities
Saturday, June 5
5:00 – 8:00 pm
We invite you to join us in the Garden for the seventh annual Encinitas Rotary Wine Festival, a celebration of international wines, local microbrews, and cuisine. We are one of the beneficiaries of this event. With the purchase of a $135 or a $500 ticket and the selection of San Diego Botanic Garden as your charity of choice, we will receive the entire amount of your ticket price. We will receive $60 from your purchase of an $85 ticket. After May 15th, the minimum ticket price increases to $100, with $75 coming to the Garden.
To purchase event tickets, and to find out more, please go to encinitaswinefestival.com. |
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Hemerocallis Show and Sale
Saturday, June 12
1:00 – 4:00 pm
In this spectacular display, members from the Southwest Hemerocallis Society showcase their best daylilies from the garden, judged for ribbons. Activities include a plant sale and tours of the daylilies at San Diego Botanic Garden.
Cost: Free with admission or membership. |
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Strings in the Garden
Sponsored by Carlsbad Strings Education Association, Inc.
Sunday, June 13
4:00 – 7:00 pm
Enjoy an evening of string serenades by children of all ages and a silent auction during this collaborative fund-raising celebration of San Diego Botanic Garden and Carlsbad Strings. Refreshments will be served.
For ticket information call Randy Benge at 760/ 434–8629 or go to www.carlsbadstrings.org. |
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Fairy Festival
Saturday, June 19
10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Fairies! Come celebrate summer at the Hamilton Children’s Garden. Wear your fairy costume if you have one, or come just as you are. Create a fairy house, make fairy treasures, leave messages on the wishing bush, or shop in the Fairyland market.
Don’t forget to bring your camera for a picture with the Fairy Queen. Schedule: Crafts, 10 am – 12:30 pm; Fairy Parade, 12:30 pm; Free Play and Stories, 1 – 2 pm.
Cost: Free with admission or membership. Many free activities, small fee
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Thursday Family Fun Nights
The Garden will stay open until 8 pm on Thursday nights from June 3 – September 2. There will be activities for children and, on selected nights, music in the Lawn Garden. Music schedule to be added soon.
Cost: Free with admission or membership. |
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