San Antonio Botanical Garden Celebrates 45 Years of Community Enrichment
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS – January 17, 2025 – The San Antonio Botanical Garden is celebrating a momentous milestone—45 years of enriching lives through plants and nature across its exquisite 38-acres. As the Garden looks to the future, it reflects on its past achievements and announces key initiatives that will chart its course for the years to come.
In 2024, the Garden served over 25,000 school children, 13,000 annual members and organized over 900 educational programs, continuing its commitment to inspiring and educating the next generation about the importance of nature.
As the Garden looks to the future, it will be guided by a new Strategic Master Plan, an initiative led by Reed Hilderbrand, a leading landscape architecture firm with a long record of achievement working with public gardens and community organizations. The plan considers garden improvements, expanded community access, and conservation. The planning phase for Phase I will launch in the coming year. “We have loved working with the full-hearted community of the Garden to set this new vision together,”said Beka Sturges, Principal of Reed Hilderbrand Landscape Architecture. “Appealing to the senses and spirit, our plan opens up the horticultural campus for education and enlivens the center of the garden with an immersive pollinator meadow. We’re welcoming more people from across San Antonio to a future centered on conservation.”
In 2019 the San Antonio Botanical Garden transitioned to privatization after a 30-year partnership with the City of San Antonio. Officially opened to the public in 1980, the 501(c)(3) non-profit has since expanded and grown into what it is today. As part of its ongoing commitment to environmental stewardship, the Garden is actively focusing on water-wise gardening and conservation. With the goal of becoming a leading authority on sustainable gardening practices, the Garden offers hands-on classes in a variety of topics, including gardening, landscaping, cooking, arts, wellness, and early childhood education.
