Jo Bridge Memorial Fund to support development of new Pacific Slope Garden
In the late fall of 2016 UBC Botanical Garden lost one of its longest-standing Friends of the Garden, Jo Bridge. Jo joined the FOGs in 1976 and served in various capacities as a volunteer for the Garden for 40 years.
UBC Botanical Garden featured in Weddingbells’ Spring/Summer 2019 Issue
An elegant occasion at the Contemporary Lawn & Arbour.
UBC REC Triathlon: Detours and Road Closures – March 9
Access to UBC Botanical Garden will be impacted but maintained.
UBC Botanical Garden wins campus sustainability contest
UBC Botanical Garden is one of three winners in a campus-wide contest to reduce UBC’s energy use during the 2018/2019 holiday season.
Apple Festival 2018 was a huge success!
The 27th UBC Apple Festival was a huge success thanks to more than 18,800 visitors and volunteers that participated in festivities at UBC Botanical Garden on Oct. 13 & 14.
Birds of UBC Botanical Garden
We have launched a new bird brochure that highlights the birds you can find at UBC Botanical Garden
Construction Update
Pathway restoration and upgrade has been completed in the David C. Lam Asian Garden.
Interpretive Signs in the Garden
Discover highlights, facts & history from the Garden with our new interpretive signage.
Garden Days: 100 Years of Plants and People
When institutions have big milestones, like the 100th birthday of the UBC Botanical Garden, the anniversary can seem intangible. What exactly is being celebrated and why? The Garden Days event I helped to organize on the weekend of June 17-19 gave me a small taste of what it takes for an institution to endure 100 […]
Renewal of the Espalier Fruit Tree Collection
By Richard Hallman, UBC Botanical Garden Pomologist in Residence UBC Botanical Garden was established on the UBC campus in 1916. The Garden is now celebrating its 100th anniversary, but it wasn’t until the 1960s that the Garden moved to its current location on Southwest Marine Drive. The first of the espalier fruit tree collection was […]