San Francisco Botanical Garden Celebrates its 75th Anniversary
A Special Free Community Day Festival and Other Gala Events Commemorate the 1940 Opening of the City’s Most Cherished Garden
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ANNIVERSARY EVENTSTo celebrate this landmark anniversary, the Garden has planned the following events for May 2015:
Community Day Sunday, May 31 10 AM – 4 PM
A free, daylong celebration that features family activities, giant puppets and a sing-a-long, a variety of docent-led walking tours; a special stage featuring world music and dance performances reflecting the global nature of the collection, a photo booth and more. Visitors can also purchase picnicking supplies at food trucks from Off the Grid, and beverages of all kinds, including those for those 21 and up, will also be available for purchase.
Garden Feast Thursday, May 28 11 AM – 2 PM
A festive fundraising luncheon held on the sweeping Great Meadow to support free, hands-on nature education for Bay Area children.
Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor of California and former Mayor of San Francisco, will be this year’s keynote speaker. Newsom is the grandson of Arthur L. Menzies, the Garden’s revered Assistant Director who died in 1973. SFBG’s award-winning Garden of California Natives Plants is named after Menzies in honor of his special love and knowledge of the native plant collection.
Guests enjoy a delicious lunch catered by McCall Associates and have a chance to bid on unusual and exotic plants, exclusive garden experiences, botanical art, unique travel packages, parties in the Garden, and more.
48th Annual Plant Sale
Members Preview Sale: Friday, May 1, 5 – 8 PM Public Sale: Saturday, May 2, 10 AM – 2 PM
The Bay Area’s largest plant sale features over 20,000 plants representing 2,500 different varieties, many of which are rare and hard to find. Green thumbs can snap up a wide variety of plants propagated from the Garden’s own award-winning collection, hundreds of beautiful and drought tolerant natives, flowering plants, many trees, ferns, succulents, alpine rock garden plants, and more. Dozens of knowledgeable volunteers provide advice and answer questions.
The Garden Bookstore is also offering a special boxed set of greeting cards for the 75th Anniversary featuring stunning photograph’s of the Garden’s magnolias by photographer Saxon Holt.
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