Red Butte Garden at 40 | Always Changing Always Growing
What does the name Red Butte Garden and Arboretum bring to mind?
That sense of peace you get strolling your little one on a leaf-strewn path along Red Butte Creek? That rush of inspiration when you spot a new waterwise plant for your own yard in the Water Conservation Garden? That all-over good vibe you dance home to after a night in the Ampitheatre’s lush setting and sounds?
It’s our 40th anniversary, and we’re celebrating what makes the Garden so meaningful and memorable. To start, we’re unveiling a new visual identity—a re-envisioned logo, updated oak leaf icon, and fresh, Garden-inspired color palette. Our new look honors our roots in conservation and research, education, and community building and communicates the Garden’s welcoming, dynamic, and forward-looking spirit.
Did you notice we added a word?
Arboretum, always part of our name, but not always part of the logo, is essential to who we are and why we matter. The Garden was inspired by the pioneering oak research and conservationist spirit of botanist Walter P. Cottam, and we cultivate and protect an essential urban forestland that helps both human and plant communities thrive.
For 40 years Red Butte Garden and Arboretum has meant so many things to so many people. It’s been a place to learn, to heal, to celebrate, to contemplate. It’s where you meet fellow plant lovers and level up your skills in a class with one of our experts. Where you picnic with a first date, tie the knot in the Fragrance Garden, and start teaching your kids to love the outdoors. It’s where you welcome spring when the daffodils bloom, get up close to native wildflowers on a hike through the Natural Area, and spot cedar waxwings in the bare branches of a crabapple tree on a quiet walk in winter.
This year come celebrate the one-of-a-kind sanctuary we’ve created together.
Don’t miss our Botanical Alchemy 40th Anniversary Garden Party, Saturday, June 21, an elevated experience that will immerse you in the transformative power of nature and the Garden.
Like the thousands of different plants and trees we tend, the Garden is always changing, always growing—so that it’s always a place for you to grow too.
Let’s keep growing together. Become a member today.
