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Operating Hours
UBC Botanical Garden
Daily 9:30 am to 5 pm
Shop in the Garden
Daily 9:30 am to 5 pm
Nitobe Memorial Garden
Daily 9:30 am to 5 pm
Note: starting November 1 Nitobe will be open Weekdays 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. by donation.
Greenheart Canopy Walkway
Daily 10 am to 4 pm
(last tour at 3 pm)
Note: starting Nov. 16 the Greenheart Canopy Walkway will be closing for the season.
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UBC Farm Orchard Tours On Saturday, October 18, 2014 the UBC Farm will have a booth on-site at Apple Festival and will also be offering tours of their Heritage Orchard on Saturday October 18, at 11am and 2pm. Tours of the UBC Farm Heritage Orchard are free, though donations are gratefully accepted. A sanctuary for apple culture, the orchard is composed of ~120 trees, including 65 varieties of apples and a handful of plums.
Note: No UBC Farm orchard tours will be offered on Sunday. There is no shuttle service between the UBC Farm and the Botanical Garden but UBC Farm is only a 20 minute walk, a 10 minute bike ride and a 5 minute drive from UBC Botanical Garden.
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National Forest Week
In honour of National Forest Week (Sept 21-27), we hosted a Walk in the Woods where Garden volunteer Laura Cottle designed a fun and interactive tour of important trees in the Garden. Over 50 guests participated in the event where adults and children learned first hand about grand firs, Douglas firs, cedar, hemlock and aspen. Guests experiences the forest floor then took the canopy to explore the tree tops. The tour will also be offered to school groups throughout this year. Many thanks to Laura and all the other volunteers that made this event possible!
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Membership
The best way to enjoy everything the gardens at UBC have to offer is through a membership, which includes admission to both UBC Botanical Garden and Nitobe Memorial Garden.
Membership is an investment in your community and a valuable way of supporting the future of the gardens.
We've just revamped our membership program and have great new benefits to offer. Visit our website for more details.
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About the Garden
Established in 1916, UBC Botanical Garden curates a collection of ca. 12,000 plants, representing approximately 8,000 taxa from temperate regions around the world.
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| Apple Festival - NEXT WEEK! October 18-19, 2014 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. $4 entry - cash only (Children 12 years and under free) A family event for all ages, the UBC Apple Festival celebrates one of British Columbia's favourite fruits. From children learning about the diversity of apples to those who remember tasting heritage apples in their youth, the Apple Festival is a great opportunity to not only discover more about this delicious fruit, but have a whole lot of fun doing it! Please note - no dogs are permitted on the festival grounds, with the exception of working service animals.
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October in the Botanical Garden
While this year's autumn colours will no doubt be worth admiring, because of the hot, dry summer, most leaves are exhibiting sign of stress, and the show may be somewhat abbreviated. The focus this year should be on fruit, since this will clearly be a banner year. Everything from crabapples, cotoneasters and quinces to sapphire berries (sadly, already picked clean by birds), sparkleberries and sumac bobs are incredibly abundant this year. Some would have us believe such abundance presages an extra cold winter, but it's more easily explained by the nearly perfect conditions that occurred during and immediately following flowering earlier this year. We have plenty to brag about in Vancouver, but the combination of warm springtime temperatures, sunny conditions and well-spaced rain events is not usually one of them.
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Shop in the Garden and Garden Centre
As your garden winds down, fill the open spaces with bulbs from The Shop in the Garden. There are bargains to be found amongst the treasures in The Garden Centre as we prepare for winter.
The cooler weather steers our selection of hats towards a warmer, softer, cozier array of felt beauties to protect and adorn your head. Add a layer of warmth to your shoulders with a wool scarf from our ever-changing offering from Tuula Vishdehi at Kemi Trading. Finish up with a pair of three-way gloves from Picabo. Beautiful new lampwork beads from Vancouverite, Minori Takagi will add a crisp sparkle to your neck. In from the garden, freshen-up with a bar of Lakewood Lye handmade soap, locally made in a dozen botanical combinations. After a day of exertion in the cold, you may enjoy a ‘Warm Buddy,’ a new line of heating pads that are heated in the microwave with optional aroma-therapy, made in North Vancouver. ‘Warm Buddy’ teddy bears are available for your wee garden helpers. Christmas is way around the corner, but we do have seasonal stationery and gifts arriving for your furthest friends. To keep up to date as new products come in to the shop between the Garden's monthly email newsletters you can sign up to receive periodic email from the shop by clicking here. You can also follow us on social media: twitter, facebook and instagram Our username on all three of these social networks is "ubcgarden" - follow us for the latest!.
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Garden Outreach in September
Garden staff and volunteers have been working hard to engage our local community in getting people to come to the Garden. In September, we kicked off our outreach at the UBC Staff BBQ, we then hosted a Ripple Lab promoting the Garden’s work on sustainability to students and we had fun in the sun at campus community events such as the UNA Annual Barn Raising and the Wesbrook Village Festival.
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New School Field Trip Options!
If you are an educator or a parent with school-age children please take the time to look at the new school programs UBC Botanical Garden is offering this year. We are also in the planning stages of a few other exciting new programs so bookmark that page for new programs on a range of interesting topics!
Please recommend a field trip to our garden to your child's teacher. Thank you for your support!
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