Local horticulturist Nan Sterman explains what went into choosing the plants and her garden design in Balboa Park’s rebuilt ...

Our list of top things to do this weekend includes the County Fair, a Greek festival, Juneteenth events and more ...

The transformation of Balboa Park’s Botanical Building isn’t quite finished. After Memorial Day, crews will break ground on the Central Gardens — the final phase of restoration that will ...

Composer Wojtek Blecharz and Project [BLANK] artistic director Leslie Leytham at the Rose Garden in Balboa Park, one of the sites for an act of “Park Opera” on Saturday, May 1, 2025.

For Balboa Park leaders, camping ban enforcement in the park has meant a reduction in the homeless camps that once dotted areas of the park more visible to visitors. Before the camping ban took effect ...

You'll only find one place like it in all of San Diego -- the Japanese Friendship Garden in Balboa Park. On Sunday, more than 6,000 people lined up for the 20th annual Cherry Blossom Festival.

According to a spokesperson for the garden, Balboa Park’s 150 cherry blossom trees were a gift from the Asakawa family who ran the garden and its teahouse in the early 1900s.

The koala was officially declared endangered in the Australian state of New South Wales in February 2022. A year later, the Labor Party promised to create a 315,000-hectare (778,000-acre) Great ...

Balboa Park is considered San Diego's Crown Jewel, and is one of the most popular destinations in the city for tourists and locals alike. The park, which is famous for its museums, historic sites ...

A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed in to a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they’d ever seen.

All up, we spent about 5 hours on this garden, and we took out about 1.5 trailer loads of green waste. Quick Cuts Posted: 29 December 2024 | Last updated: 29 December 2024 ...