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The Garden offers a wide variety of classes, workshops, talks, tours, and more for all ages to deepen your engagement with plants and nature.
Virtual Tour: Discover the six parts of a plant
Join docent Ifechukwu Okeke, on an adventure at the UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley to look at the amazing diversity of plants that exist here in the Garden. Travel from South America to Southern Africa to Asia to see a variety of environments and take a look at how different plant parts have evolved to adapt to these environments and ensure their survival. This 18-minute introduction to botany is a wonderful classroom tool or the perfect accompaniment to a visit for all ages.
We gratefully acknowledge the Bernard E. & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation for their support of this educational video.
View Our Educational Offerings by Theme
From bird and butterfly walks to journaling to fragrant gardens to edible plants, our themed programming is sure to offer something for every interest. Check out our list of educational offerings to find your particular passion.
Art courses at the UC Botanical Garden include regular botanical illustration courses, as well as one-day workshops in watercolor, brush painting, drawing, and other art forms. We also host annual art exhibitions, and have worked with many talented local artists on provocative installations. Visit our Exhibitions page to see past and upcoming exhibitions.
The Garden loves its budding botanists! In addition to our popular summer day camp, Green Stuff Camp, the Garden offers monthly family programs uniquely designed for families to learn together.
At the root of our programming are classes for the plant enthusiast, home gardener, and botanist alike. Learn about the people and places that have shaped conservation and landscape design practices and incorporate new garden design practices into your own landscaping.
We offer seasonal programs year-round that explore the natural world, including many of our faunal cohabitants. Come learn more about mushrooms, lichen, birds, newts, bats, and owls and how they cohabitate in the Garden.
Ethnobotany is an interdisciplinary field that studies the relationship between plants and people. The Garden is always inspired by the many incredible uses of plants around the world and strives to preserve this knowledge with a series of hands-on programming and cutting-edge lectures to teach these skills.
Building upon UC Berkeley’s renowned research, the Garden presents the work of UC faculty and scientists, as well as local and international scholars and botanists.
Beyond its use by researchers and scholars, the Garden is, quite simply, just a beautiful place to spend time. The natural beauty of this site is the perfect place to cultivate mindfulness and presence, and we offer programs designed to develop practices that enhance the mind/body experience and appreciate the Garden’s beauty in new ways.