Learn and play at California Botanic Garden & Sustainable Claremont's
Native plant festival
Saturday, March 29, 2025
10 AM - 3 PM
Explore, learn, and connect at the Native Plant Festival at California Botanic Garden! This free, family-friendly event celebrates California’s incredible biodiversity and highlights how we can all make a difference to protect and restore the landscapes around us. Join dozens of regional nonprofits, landscapers, and agencies for info on native plant landscaping, wildlands conservation and restoration, crafts, music, storytime, food, and more!
The festival features:
The festival features:
- FREE ADMISSION to California Botanic Garden on Saturday, March 29th. Advance ticket reservations available soon!
- Fun and informative exhibitor booths featuring local nonprofits and agencies.
- Local landscapers specializing in native and drought tolerant design.
- Tours and mini-workshops on native plant landscaping featuring CalBG experts (schedule coming soon).
- Family-friendly storytime and craft stations.
- Talks and tours on native plant ecology, conservation, and restoration.
- Live musical performances curated by Living Earth. Performers include: Mutual Benefit, Nighttime, Sonoda, and Barry Archie Johnson.
- Food for sale: Food trucks, coffee, and more.
- A vendor market featuring plant-oriented artists and artisans.
- California native plants available for purchase at the Grow Native Nursery.
- Raffle prizes including nursery gift certificates, CalBG merch, and much more!
IMPORTANT EVENT INFO
- Advance, timed ticket reservations highly recommended (coming soon!). Please plan to arrive during your half-hour scheduled arrival time. Entrance for late arrivals is subject to event capacity. Limited walk-up tickets will be available on the day of the event subject to event capacity.
- Parking is free but availability will be highly impacted by the Festival. Please consider taking public transportation or riding your bike to the Festival (convenient bike parking will be available). Parking is available in the main CalBG lot, on North College Ave. (north of Foothill Blvd.), and in lots surrounding the former Claremont School of Theology facility. Please see the parking map below for parking locations and follow all posted signs and parking attendant instructions during the event.
- CalBG asks visitors to leave pets, drones, and other prohibited items at home. Trained service dogs are permitted in the Garden. Please stay on Garden paths at all times - walking through plant areas and climbing trees endangers our invaluable Living Collection.
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