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Garden Calendar for event details and updates.
Reservations are accepted daily, including weekends, 9 am - 4:30 pm.
Call 510-643-2755 x03 for event registration or to purchase/renew a membership. Email
[email protected] for reservations or program questions.
Bees Explained at the Observation Hive
Sunday | June 10 | 2-3:30 pm
Join the Garden and one of our experts as we reveal what's going on behind the door to our observation hive located inside the Tropical House. Find the queen and her court. Identify larvae, eggs and honey in the comb and understand the roles of bees.
Free with Garden admission. Registration not required.
Introduction to Urban Beekeeping with Her Majesty's Secret Beekeeper
Sunday | June 10 | 11am - 1 pm Interested in keeping bees but don't know where to start? Join local urban beekeeper Bryon Waibel of San Francisco's Her Majesty's Secret Beekeeper for an informative beekeeping basics workshop. In this introductory beekeeping course topics will include: bees and the law, basic bee biology, choosing and siting a hive, and maintaining a hive. Honey tasting included!
Advance registration required; $50, $45 members, $40 students. Register online!
Honey Tasting
Sunday | June 10 | 1 - 2 pm Join the Garden and local urban beekeeper Bryon Waibel of San Francisco's Her Majesty's Secret Beekeeper for an informal honey-tasting. Don't miss this sweet opportunity!
Advance registration required; $8, $5 members. Register online!
Life After Lawn: Toward a New American Front Yard
Friday | June 15 | 10 am - noon Learn about exciting and regionally appropriate lawn alternatives. Join Anthony Garza, Supervisor of Horticulture & Grounds, for this presentation and discussion about how to get started, planning for success, using great grasses and grass-like plants in different settings, and tackling maintenance.
Advance registration required; $12, $8 members. Register online!
Butterfly Walk
Tuesday | June 22 | 3 - 4 pm
Join Sally Levinson, Garden volunteer propagator, docent and caterpillar lady, as she guides you through the collection in search of butterflies.
Space is limited. Children welcome. Free with Garden admission. Register online!
Members' Walk: Crops of the World Garden
Tuesday | June 26 | 1 - 2:30 pm
Join Horticulturist Colin Baxter on an exploration of the Crops of the World Garden. Colin will discuss the origins of most common "homegrown" vegetables, soil, composting, watering, seed sowing, seed saving and insect management.
Advance registration required; members only; free. Register online!
Members' Walk: Chinese Medicinal Herb Garden
Thursday | June 28 | 1 - 2:30 pm
Celebrate the launch of the Garden's new Chinese Medicinal Herb Garden brochure by taking a tour of this special collection with Horticulturist Elaine Sedlack. This collection features over 100 herbs used in the practice of traditional Chinese medicine. Medicinal herb gardens are common at medical colleges in China, but this collection is the only medicinal garden arranged by function group in the U.S.
Advance registration required; members only; free. Register online!