2025 Illuminate Employee

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Admission Flex Tickets

Illuminate 2025 Child under 3

Illuminate 2025 Flex

Illuminate 2025 Flex 2 pack

Illuminate 2025 Flex 2 pack Paper Ticket

Illuminate 2025 Paper Flex Ticket

Our beautiful, hard-copy Flex Tickets can be used on any date or time the exhibit is open, offering total flexibility—and they make elegant gifts for friends, family, or even yourself.

This is a registration to pick up paper tickets at the garden. It is not a ticket to the exhibition.

Please note:

  • Tickets must be picked up in person; we are unable to mail tickets.
  • Digital versions are not available.
  • The bar-coded ticket is required for pickup. Lost tickets cannot be replaced, so please keep them safe.
  • All sales are final—no refunds, exchanges, or discounts apply.
  • Parking is not included.
  • Tickets have no cash value.

Thank you for choosing to share this experience—we’re excited for you to enjoy this gift of light and wonder.

Please allow 24 hours for your tickets to be available for pickup at our kiosk.

Illuminate 2025 Flex 4 pack

Illuminate 2025 Flex 4 pack Paper Ticket

Illuminate 2025 Paper Flex Ticket

Our beautiful, hard-copy Flex Tickets can be used on any date or time the exhibit is open, offering total flexibility—and they make elegant gifts for friends, family, or even yourself.

This is a registration to pick up paper tickets at the garden. It is not a ticket to the exhibition.

Please note:

  • Tickets must be picked up in person; we are unable to mail tickets.
  • Digital versions are not available.
  • The bar-coded ticket is required for pickup. Lost tickets cannot be replaced, so please keep them safe.
  • All sales are final—no refunds, exchanges, or discounts apply.
  • Parking is not included.
  • Tickets have no cash value.

Thank you for choosing to share this experience—we’re excited for you to enjoy this gift of light and wonder.

Please allow 24 hours for your tickets to be available for pickup at our kiosk.

Illuminate 2025 Flex Paper Ticket Adult

Illuminate 2025 Paper Flex Ticket

Our beautiful, hard-copy Flex Tickets can be used on any date or time the exhibit is open, offering total flexibility—and they make elegant gifts for friends, family, or even yourself.

This is a registration to pick up paper tickets at the garden. It is not a ticket to the exhibition.

Please note:

  • Tickets must be picked up in person; we are unable to mail tickets.
  • Digital versions are not available.
  • The bar-coded ticket is required for pickup. Lost tickets cannot be replaced, so please keep them safe.
  • All sales are final—no refunds, exchanges, or discounts apply.
  • Parking is not included.
  • Tickets have no cash value.

Thank you for choosing to share this experience—we’re excited for you to enjoy this gift of light and wonder.

Please allow 24 hours for your tickets to be available for pickup at our kiosk.

Illuminate 2025 Flex Paper Ticket Child

Illuminate 2025 Paper Flex Ticket

Our beautiful, hard-copy Flex Tickets can be used on any date or time the exhibit is open, offering total flexibility—and they make elegant gifts for friends, family, or even yourself.

This is a registration to pick up paper tickets at the garden. It is not a ticket to the exhibition.

Please note:

  • Tickets must be picked up in person; we are unable to mail tickets.
  • Digital versions are not available.
  • The bar-coded ticket is required for pickup. Lost tickets cannot be replaced, so please keep them safe.
  • All sales are final—no refunds, exchanges, or discounts apply.
  • Parking is not included.
  • Tickets have no cash value.

Thank you for choosing to share this experience—we’re excited for you to enjoy this gift of light and wonder.

Please allow 24 hours for your tickets to be available for pickup at our kiosk.

Illuminate Access / Latino Outdoors

Illuminate Access / SJRC

Illuminate Access / The Contemporary

Illuminate Access / TU CASA

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Member Benefits

Volunteer Application

Rain Barrel Workshop

Early Childhood Garden to Table Experience

Picture Your World School Program

Teacher Workshop: Project Learning Tree Explore Your Environment

Youth Guided Garden Tour

Member Night

Memory Café

Drop-in Guided Tour: Texas WaterSaver Garden

Member Exclusive Coffee and Chat

Rainscaping and Rain Gardens

Digging Deeper: Soil, Water, and Biodiversity

Aquifer Adventure: Journey Through San Antonio's Watershed

Engineering a Healthy Ecosystem

Drop-in Guided Tour: Texas Native Grass Walk

Nature Navigator Transportation with Garden program

Practical Landscape Design

Morning Flow with Krystal

Private Culinary Event

Cocktail Scavenger Hunt

 

*Please be advised that food program menus may contain dairy, eggs, wheat, soybeans, peanuts, tree nuts, fish and shellfish*  

This event is open to ages 21+. 

Members: Please remember to click on the black Sign In button in the top right-hand corner of this page in order to receive your discount. The member discount will not appear until the Checkout Screen.

 

 

 

Self Guided Tour - Children

CHEF Cooking Workshop

Drop-in Guided Tour: Birds of Texas

Family Workshop: Watercolor Pollinators

  Members: Please remember to Sign In order to receive your discount. The member discount will not appear until the Checkout Screen.

 

 

 

 

Family Workshop: Garden Gifts – Planting Arrangements in Thrifted Vessels

  Members: Please remember to Sign In order to receive your discount. The member discount will not appear until the Checkout Screen.

 

 

 

 

Admission Online Ticket

NEW!! Non-school groups of 15 or more that do not require a guide can now purchase advance tickets here and automatically receive the group discount! Before purchasing, please refer to the group rates information here for rules and limitations.

General admission does not include admission to special events or classes. Tickets are non-refundable and valid only for the date listed on the ticket. Un-redeemed tickets are considered a donation to the San Antonio Botanical Garden.

If you have any questions, please contact our Guest Experience team by emailing ticketing@sabot.org or calling 210.536.1400.

Botanical Garden Members, please sign in to receive your discount, which will be applied at the end of the check-out process. If you have not created an online account, please register using the email address and name provided when you purchased your membership.

 

Bonsai Weekend at the San Antonio Botanical Garden

 

 

Includes General Admission

MEMBERS, please sign in to reserve your tickets and receive your discount. If you have your password, please sign in using the link on the top right-hand corner of this page or reset your password to login. If not, please registerYour member discount will be applied after you add your selected tickets to your cart.

Ticket Policy and Refunds
Tickets are non-refundable and valid only for the date listed on the ticket.
Unredeemed tickets are considered a donation to the San Antonio Botanical Garden. Contact the Guest Experience team by phone at 210.536.1400.

 

 

Gardens of Texas: Growing with Resilience - Lecture & Book Signing with Pam Penick

Illuminate 2025 SAME DAY General Admission Weekday

Illuminate 2025 SAME DAY General Admission Weekend

Private Culinary Off-Site Experience

Intro to Composting at Home

Forest Bathing in the Garden

Illuminate 2025 General Admission Weekend

Illuminate 2025 General Admission Weekday

Illuminate 2025 Member Monday

Members - Check your email for an exclusive code to get any ticket type for $15.00 on Mondays!

Be sure to use the code, as we are unable to provide refunds for the difference.

Illuminate 2025 Onsite Parking

Onsite Parking is available ONLY online.

Purchase Parking tickets 15 minutes before your event arrival time for a stress-free experience.

Nature Navigator NO transportation

Terrarium Program - Offsite

Family Night Hike

Pop-Up Culinary Demo

Guided Tour

Garden Sound Bath

 

 

 

 

Off site Outreach

Pollinator Patches & Pocket Prairies

Pollinator Ecosystem Program

Member Exclusive Movie Night

Children’s Vegetable Garden Spring 2026

Children’s Vegetable Garden: Spring 2024

Designed for children ages 7-16. 

PROGRAM DETAILS AND EXPECTATIONS

  • Participants are expected to attend the Children’s Vegetable Garden Program every Saturday, February 17th  through June 1st  from 8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m., especially during the first four to six weeks when the planting will occur.
  • Participants should (1) be on time every Saturday by 8:30 a.m.; (2) do their daily chores; (3) attend the daily presentation.
  • A parent/guardian /adult must be in attendance with their child each Saturday and be available to assist their child/children.

For questions, contact Allison Russell at ARussell@sabot.org Arussell@sabot.org

 

Beginning Knitting

 

 

 

 

 

The Art of Sushi

 

*Please be advised that food program menus may contain dairy, eggs, wheat, soybeans, peanuts, tree nuts, fish and shellfish*  

This event is open to ages 21+. 

Members: Please remember to click on the black Sign In button in the top right-hand corner of this page in order to receive your discount. The member discount will not appear until the Checkout Screen.

 

 

 

Spring Break Camp at the Garden (Ages 8 –12)

Mozzarella Mania

 

*Please be advised that food program menus may contain dairy, eggs, wheat, soybeans, peanuts, tree nuts, fish and shellfish*  

This event is open to ages 21+. 

Members: Please remember to click on the black Sign In button in the top right-hand corner of this page in order to receive your discount. The member discount will not appear until the Checkout Screen.

 

 

 

The Art of Dumplings

 

*Please be advised that food program menus may contain dairy, eggs, wheat, soybeans, peanuts, tree nuts, fish and shellfish*  

This event is open to ages 21+. 

Members: Please remember to click on the black Sign In button in the top right-hand corner of this page in order to receive your discount. The member discount will not appear until the Checkout Screen.

 

 

 

iNaturalist Workshop and City Nature Challenge