Douglas Justice, Associate Director | Horticulture and Curation
Cherry Blossoms Through the Season
UBC Botanical Garden hosts an abundance of cherry trees that explode with beauty throughout the spring season. Read on to hear from Douglas Justice, Associate Director | Horticulture and Curation, about the seasonality of several exceptional varieties. No matter what time you visit UBC Botanical Garden or Nitobe Memorial Garden this spring, there will be […]
Sharing a Piece of Nitobe Memorial Garden: Japanese Maple Sharing Event for Families
On November 5th, 2023, we hosted our first Japanese maple sharing event for families at Nitobe Memorial Garden. We were happy to have 17 families and 50 people in total join us at this exciting event and share a piece of Nitobe Memorial Garden with them. Mini-maple enthusiasts had a wonderful time digging up Japanese […]
All the Ways We Water the Garden: Strategic and smart watering practices taken from UBC Botanical Garden
As gardeners, we’re always looking for ways of getting water to our plants more efficiently, with less hassle and in less time. And hopefully, using less water too. We’re going to take a peek ‘behind the curtain’ here at UBC Botanical Garden and show you some of our irrigation systems (we use many of the […]
Celebrating Our Third Annual Family Nature Walk!
We are thrilled to share the exciting highlights of our third annual Family Nature Walk event, in honour of the UN’s International Day for Biological Diversity!