Bryan Gim, Horticulturist Working as a horticulturist in a glasshouse is an interesting job, particularly in a collection as diverse as that in the UCBG Arid House. The Arid House harbors a phenomenal collection of over 10,000 plants. The unifying theme of the collection is adaptation to habitats of extreme aridity and the plants display…
Vanessa Handley, Director of Collections & Research At the end of last month, I had the pleasure of representing UCBG at the XIX International Botanical Congress in Shenzhen, China. Given that the IBC is only held every six years, it was a much anticipated and heavily attended event. Over 6500 botanists from around the world…
Eric Siegel, Garden Director The Garden has a tripartite mission: research, education, and conservation. I have spent many years working with botanists at the NY Botanical Garden to support their global research agenda, and engaged closely with the NYBG Herbarium to support that collection of several million dried plant specimens that are critical to botanical…
Ben Anderson, Horticulturist Starting in June of 2016, UCBG staff have taken regular trips to Point Arena, California to conduct a floristic survey of the 1,665 acre Stornetta Unit of the California Coastal National Monument. This work has been accomplished through a contract for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Our team scoured ocean bluffs,…
Jonathan Goodrich, Director of Visitor Services If you look for UCBG on Yelp, you will find that many of the comments come from people who came to the Garden for a wedding or other event. While the primary purpose of the Garden isn’t to generate revenue, weddings and rentals are an important way to support…
Eric Siegel, Garden Director Inaugural blog posts are like starting a new diary. We swear that we will make entries every day only to find the diary ten years later with a few pages filled in…the Internet is littered with various blogs I have started! But there is so much to talk about at the…