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2024: A Year of Germination at UBC Botanical Garden and Nitobe Memorial Garden
Posted on February 6, 2025 by Katrina Yu
Our Director, Dee Ann Benard, invites us to look back on the highlights of this year. Through our collective drive for growth and unwavering dedication, we have achieved significant progress, transformation, and success. Read on for our Director’s full reflection and vision for the future of the UBC Botanical Garden team and its broader impact […]
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An Introduction to Research Conducted at UBC Botanical Garden
Posted on February 27, 2025 by Garden Communications
An Introduction to Research Conducted at UBC Botanical Garden Anyone who visits UBC Botanical Garden can see and feel that it is a place of beauty and biological diversity as well as human and ecological well-being. However, not everyone fully appreciates the fact that the Garden is also a space of investigation, experimentation, and learning—in […]
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Celebrating UN World Soils Day: Caring for Soils at UBC Botanical Garden and UBC Farm
Posted on December 5, 2024 by rhilewis
Written by: Lauren Kufske and Guest Author: Jessica Chiartas Join us as we celebrate the UN World Soil Day at UBC. UBC Botanical Garden and the UBC Farm are situated on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Musqueam. Soils play both a symbolic and central role in understanding our history with […]
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A brighter Lunar New Year celebration awaits us in 2025
Posted on February 6, 2025 by Garden Communications
Purchase Tickets here Volunteer Building on the success of the previous year, the 2025 event will be bigger and better than ever – doubling in size and bringing new experiences for visitors of all ages and backgrounds. In 2024, the Garden came alive and celebrated the Year of the Dragon, an occasion marked by cultural performances, […]
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December in the Garden 2024
Posted on February 5, 2025 by Garden Communications
In temperate climates, all kinds of plants cease growth and lose their leaves as the light diminishes and temperatures fall. The ancients saw the loss of leaves and increasing darkness and cold with some trepidation. But evergreen plants—coniferous and broadleaf evergreens—are an antidote to the decay and gloominess of winter. Evergreen boughs were brought into […]
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