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Apple Festival 2025 Recap
Posted on November 25, 2025 by Garden Communications
The 34th Annual Apple Festival brought thousands of visitors to UBC Botanical Garden for a weekend of apple tasting and community fun. Live music, warm cider, and the scent of fresh apple pies filled the air as attendees of all ages celebrated the season’s bounty. This year’s event featured a busy apple market, a sold-out Tasting Tent […]
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Nitobe Memorial Garden: A garden that bridges worlds
Posted on November 6, 2025 by Fernanda Munoz
“Dr. Nitobe wanted to build understanding between East and West,” says Sugiyama. “We follow that idea here by mixing native plants to B.C. and Japanese plants while keeping the spirit and feeling of a traditional Japanese garden.”
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A Message from the Garden Director: Celebrating 34 Years of Apple Festival
Posted on November 25, 2025 by Fernanda Munoz
Welcome to UBC Botanical Garden’s annual Apple Festival, a volunteer-led celebration of place, harvest and community. For 34 years, Apple Festival has invited us to savour the bounty of British Columbia’s rich agricultural landscapes and to remember that we are deeply connected to the land and to one another.
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Garden Ecologies Podcast
Posted on January 22, 2026 by Fernanda Munoz
Garden Ecologies is a podcast series that explores innovative ecological practices at UBC Botanical Garden, and some of the insights and pleasures to be gained from taking a more experimental and open-ended approach to gardening. Each episode centres around a conversation with a horticulturist who works in a particular area of the garden, exploring their […]
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What to Expect at the 2025 UBC Botanical Garden Apple Festival 🍎
Posted on October 31, 2025 by Garden Communications
There’s something about the smell of crisp apples, warm cider, and fallen leaves that signals autumn in Vancouver, and nowhere captures that feeling quite like UBC Botanical Garden Apple Festival. 🍏 Apple Lovers, This Is Your Weekend The Apple Sales area will feature over 50 varieties of locally grown apples and 50+ types of apple […]
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