Celebrating the Bond Between People and Plants
Botanical Buzz gives you a new medium and new angles from which to explore your Botanical Garden. It covers a variety of topics such as birding, exploring the garden with your child, water conservation, and how climate change is affecting water availability. Our guests include some of the world's preeminent scientists as well as knowledgeable botanical garden volunteers, users, and staff with interesting and useful information to share. We hope these reports will inspire you to learn more about the world of plants, their connection to people, and how it affects you. Come take a listen!
Dr. Joseph Barbaccia continues the fascinating story of how the San Francisco Botanical Garden and Golden Gate Park came to be. (Dr. Barbaccia is a past president of the Board of Trustees of the San Francisco Botanical Garden Society and currently volunteers as a docent at the Garden.)
Storyteller extraordinaire Dr. Joseph Barbaccia begins the fascinating story of how the San Francisco Botanical Garden and Golden Gate Park came to be. (Dr. Barbaccia is a past president of the Board of Trustees of the San Francisco Botanical Garden Society and currently volunteers as a docent at the Garden.)
To learn more, visit Encyclopedia of San Francisco: Golden Gate Park
Simply put, it is a living, growing collection of plants. On this report, David Kruse-Pickler, Associate Curator at the San Francisco Botanical Garden, elaborates on this definition by describing how the collections are managed and how the data that is acquired gets used.
Jason Dewees is a horticulturist with Flora Grubb Gardens and a longtime volunteer at the San Francisco Botanical Garden. He’s a palm expert and on this report he shares his incredible knowledge about palms.
The San Francisco Botanical Garden is a living ecosystem with an extraordinary diversity of plants and animals. According to Don Mahoney, curator of plant collections, it is a one-of-a-kind botanical garden.
Laura Hartman, with the architectural firm of Fernau & Hartman, talks about the Center for Sustainable Gardening, and offers her vision of what sustainable gardening might look like.
Have you ever wondered what messages birds are conveying in their calls? Allan Ridley, field ornithologist in the Garden, shares some great tips to understanding what we are hearing.
Our guest is Allan Ridley, San Francisco Botanical Garden field ornithologist, who awakens us to the excitement of finding birds and observing their behavior in this virtual birding tour.
Young children learn by using all of their senses and older kids become engaged by looking for things. What better place for them to learn than in a garden? Annette Huddle, Associate Director of Youth Education at the San Francisco Botanical Garden, is our guest.
Dr. Peter Raven, recipient of the San Francisco Botanical Garden Society Green Champion Award, describes the Garden’s impact on him as a young person and its value on future generations of children.
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