Revolutionary New Plant on View in Balboa Park – Award-Winning Impatiens Loves Full Sun

A massive planting of colorful SunPatiens, a new hybrid impatiens was planted July 22 in Balboa Park’s Alcazar Garden. Friends of Balboa Park and Armstrong Garden Centers teamed up to donate over 700 SunPatiens, bred by the Japanese plant breeding company Sakata. This exciting new large-flowered impatiens thrives in full sun during hot summer months, unlike the popular impatiens most homeowners know that only grow in shade.  Bred from species that are more hardy and robust, SunPatiens are vigorous and very easy-to-grow in the Full Sun but will thrive anywhere they’re planted – even in the shade.  Flowers are large—3 inches—and have rich green to bronze leaves. Plants form a mounding spectacle of color. Learn more at www.SunPatiens.com

Balboa Park Task Force Final Report

Regarding the Formation of a New Public Benefit Non-Profit Corporation & the Creation of a Public Private Partnership with the City of San Diego to Assist with Funding, Management, and Governance of Balboa Park. Click here.

Twilight in the Park celebrates 30 years of FREE CONCERTS Under the Stars in Balboa Park

Program Time 6:15 – 7:15 p.m., Tuesdays – Wednesdays – Thursdays at Spreckels Organ Pavilion.  Come early, relax, bring food if you’d like, and enjoy the outdoors in your park.  For a complete concert listing check the website: www.balboapark.org

New 2010 Balboa Park Summer Camp Brochures are here!

Download the brochure here or contact us and we are happy to mail you a copy.

Water lily photos by Richard Seignious, Balboa Park Lily Pond, Summer 2010