Dear Members of the Campus Community:
Mark your calendars! The annual spring plant sale at the UC Botanical Garden is April 28-29.
Members' Sale and Silent Auction
Friday | April 28 | 5 to 7:30 pm
Public Sale
Saturday | April 29| 10 am to 2 pm
PLANT CORNUCOPIA
With over 8,000 plants at our 40th annual spring sale, the UCBG specializes in regionally appropriate, Mediterranean-climate plants including California natives, and plants from South Africa, Australia, the Mediterranean, Central and South America. You may shop for home grown natives, rare cycads and palms, carnivorous plants, cacti and succulents from the very small to landscape specimens, rare bulbs, Asian plants, glorious vines, tropical-house-plants, and much more. This year, we will again focus on plants appropriate for the low water usage. Enjoy great prices and know all proceeds help support Berkeley's premiere Garden.
There will be free round-trip shuttles from the Lawrence Hall of Science parking lot.
GREAT ADVICE AND GUIDANCE
The UC Botanical Garden`s expert staff and volunteer propagators joined by campus botanists will be on hand to answer questions and give advice. Let our expertise guide you towards your dream ecologically sound garden.
MEMBER PRIVILEGES: JOIN AT REDUCED RATES FOR CAL STAFF & FACULTY
Members get a jump on things with the Friday evening Members` Only Sale. This special preview includes food from Carrie Dove Catering and a selection of California wines provided by Kermit Lynch, as well as a silent auction of choice plants from 5:00-6:30 pm (http://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/springplantsale/#tab-1-3-silent-auction). Join at the door or online on the Garden website.
VISIT CAL`s WORLD-CLASS PLANT COLLECTION
You may have heard it before, but it's still true: the UC Botanical Garden represents one of the most diverse and valuable plant collections in the world (and the only botanical garden in the world with a view of the Golden Gate Bridge). The spectacular Julia Morgan designed building from 1912 is now in place. What better way to herald the coming of spring than a visit to the University of California Botanical Garden, where signs of the season can be found around every bend. The Garden is open every day from 9 am to 5 pm and is always free to students, faculty and staff. So, take a hike, ride your bike, or hop on the campus Hill shuttle (a short 5 minute ride from the Hearst Mining Circle every 30 min) up Centennial Drive to visit our garden - your garden - the UC Botanical Garden.
Eric Siegel, Director
University of California Botanical Garden
at Berkeley