This tour is amazing. Our guide is Mia Monroe, Site Supervisor at Muir Woods National Monument. Her knowledge about redwoods and her natural history perspective are amazing. I hope you check out the San Francisco Botanical Garden’s Redwood Trail Walking Tour. … Jerry Kay, Host of Botanical Buzz and Walking Tour Producer

To download the tour:

The The Redwood Trail Walking Tour (complete set including map) is available as a set in a single zipped file.

To unzip the files:

• For PCs, WinZip is recommended (download WinZip)
• For Macs, StuffIt is recommended (download StuffIt)

Once the files are downloaded to your computer, just transfer them to your portable media device.

To listen to the tour online, just click on the links below:

• Stop 1: Entrance
• Stop 2: Redwood Trail Sign
• Stop 3: Coast Redwood
• Stop 4: Nurse Stump
• Stop 5: Western Sword Fern
• Stop 6: Skunk Cabbage
• Stop 7: Big Leaf Maple
• Stop 8: Dawn Redwood
• Stop 9: Wild Ginger
• Stop 10: California Rhododendron
• Stop 11: California Bay

Fog is indispensible for the redwoods because it helps the trees meet their water needs. Learn more from Mia Monroe, Site Supervisor at Muir Woods National Monument. (Our Redwood Trail Walking Tour guided by Mia Monroe is now available)

You can find out how easy it is to grow your own vegetables in San Francisco by visiting our new demonstration garden. Learn more from Jay Estey, Membership Manager at the San Francisco Botanical Garden.

• Printable Map of the San Francisco Botanical Garden (the demonstration garden is located just behind the garden bookstore near the main gate)

Walk into this garden with your imagination turned on, says our guest Nan Crystal Arens, professor of geoscience at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in New York and adviser for the ancient plant garden’s renovation, and remember that the plants in this garden are the fabulous survivors!

• Printable Map of the San Francisco Botanical Garden

A wide selection of fuchsias can ben found throughout the San Francisco Botanical Garden. Learn all about them from Lisa Roberts, nursery volunteer and docent.

• Printable Map of the San Francisco Botanical Garden

Here’s a walking tour of the Garden of Fragrance at the San Francisco Botanical Garden. We encourage you to download it onto your audio player and take the tour guided by docent Ernie Ng. Be sure to download the Walking Tour Guide [pdf].

If you are unable to visit the garden, you can take a virtual tour of the Garden of Fragrance below.

You’ll want to visit our Garden of Fragrance after you listen to this program. Docent Ernie Ng is our guest.

• Download our free walking tour of the Garden of Fragrance (right-click on link to download)

Travel to South Africa by visiting our Cape Province Garden where you will see a wide variety of plants that grow in a Mediterranean Climate. Docent Joanne Taylor is your guide.

• San Francisco Botanical Garden Bed Map
• The Botany of Nests on exhibit in the HCR Library from April-June 2009

It’s that time of year when rhododendrons are beginning to burst into bloom. Volunteer Nan Ray and gardener Jason Martinez share their knowledge of this incredibly beautiful and diverse plant.

Now’s the perfect time to view the Rhododendron Garden at San Francisco Botanical Garden. You’ll find them between the Garden of Fragrance and the Ancient Plant Garden.

• San Francisco Botanical Garden Bed Map

Magnolias are thought to be one of the earliest flowering plants. San Francisco Botanical Garden docent Maggie McDowell shares her knowledge of these beautiful and ancient plants.

• Magnolia Fact Sheet

• San Francisco Botanical Garden Bed Map