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January 26, 2012: City holds ribbon-cutting for Museum Hill Trail, Local News, Santa Fe New Mexican >

Santa Fe on Thursday officially opened its newest bicycle and pedestrian trail — the Museum Hill Trail from Old Pecos Trail east to Camino Corrales, through land being groomed for the Santa Fe Botanical Garden…

December 28, 2011: The Kearny Gap Bridge, Local news in brief, Santa Fe New Mexican >

November 5, 2011: A Time to Dig > (PDF 141 kb)

It’s been a long time coming. In front of a small crowd of dignitaries and supporters, representatives of the Santa Fe Botanical Garden finally broke ground on their Museum Hill site Friday morning, after about eight years of planning. The golden shovels came out and people clustered for pictures by the Arroyo de los Pinos, where the garden’s first phase of construction will begin later this year…

Flora Fantastica: The Botanical Art of MF Cardamone

October 14, 2011: Get your chlorophyll (Pasatiempo article) > (PDF 9.79 MB)

Botanical illustration has a long and rich history. Those who study nature have been fascinated with flora and fauna for thousands of years, and as early as the first century B.C., if not before, their detailed descriptions in words and imagery have added to our understanding of the natural world…

October 14, 2011: Flora Fantastica and Selby Fleetwood Gallery featured on Gallery Hop! the weekly exhibition picks of ArtSlant Santa Fe

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June 22, 2011: Travel: Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve is alive with tours, insects and some flora despite persistent drought > (PDF 51 kb)

Just south of Santa Fe, an unusual natural preserve hides behind a gate off the I-25 frontage road near La Cienega. The preserve offers a rare wetland environment…

May 29, 2011: Little jewels in the high desert > (PDF 66.5 kb)

The Santa Fe Botanical Garden’s 16th annual garden tour, showcasing gardens from the grand to the cozy, is meant to share ideas on high-desert gardening as well as delight the senses…

May 20, 2011: In Bloom > (PDF 79.1 kb)

Don’t let the lack of paintings fool you, the Santa Fe Botanical Garden at Museum Hill slated to open next year is a museum through and through—only one that beautifully exhibits flowers, grasses and trees…

May 18, 2011: Santa Fe Botanical Garden is an oasis on the horizon > (PDF 61.3 kb)

Gary Smith designed the Santa Fe Botanical Garden at Museum Hill with an artist’s cognizance. ‘I like to say the garden is more like dance or more like music, in that it has rhythm and meter and it happens over time,’ he said. ‘Garden design is the slowest of the performance arts.’…

May 18, 2011: A Desert Oasis > (PDF 278 kb)

Plant life from South Africa, New Zealand and the Middle East will find its way into Santa Fe’s first botanical garden. It’ll be home to fruit trees, cactuses, flowers, a xeric lawn, an outdoor classroom, an ethnobotanical walk and a courtyard for parties called “The Jewel Box.”…

September 27, 2010: Students wild about field trips > (PDF 186 kb)

Jennifer Jewell doesn’t remember much of what she learned in books when she was a child. But she remembers everything she learned on elementary-school field trips. No wonder the Gonzales Community School teacher likes to take advantage of any field-trip opportunity offered to her. That’s how she ended up at the Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve…

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October 31, 2011: Santa Fe Botanical Garden to Break Ground at New Museum Hill Site > (PDF 217 kb)

May 16, 2011: The Santa Fe Botanical Garden Embarks on New Site at Museum Hill — Designer, Renown Landscape Architect W. Gary Smith, Visits Santa Fe, NM > (PDF 129 kb)

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