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Fifty Years of Gardening
Category(-ies): UBC Lectures and Courses
Helen Dillon, noted garden writer and author from Ireland, is speaking about Fifty Years of Gardening on October 6.
The lecture starts at 7:30pm in Woodward Lecture Theatre 2 in the IRC Building on the UBC Campus. Tickets cost $20 and are available from the UBC Shop in the Garden and Southlands Nursery.
Link: The Dillon Garden
The event is sponsored by the UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research and the Vancouver Hardy Plant Group.
Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 1:43 PM on September 30, 2003
Apple Festival Parking (2003)
Category(-ies): 2003 Archives
Due to the removal of parking lots near the Botanical Garden for residential development, Apple Festival eventgoers travelling by vehicle are asked to note the following:
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Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 1:22 PM on September 30, 2003
Centre for Plant Research
Category(-ies): Web Site News
The new site for the UBC Centre for Plant Research is live. It features information about researchers and research at the UBC Centre for Plant Research. Catering to the researcher and the student, it also has forums for plant research discussion and a weblog for the latest news of relevance to plant scientists, botanists and students.
Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 8:04 PM on September 22, 2003
Apple Fest Poster (2003)
Category(-ies): 2003 Archives
Help us promote the UBC Botanical Garden Apple Festival! Place this eye-catching poster in local gathering places and help us invite the Greater Vancouver community to come and enjoy British Columbian apples and more!
Apple Festival 2003 Poster (in PDF format, 577 KB)
Poster designed by Jaleen Grove, multimedia designer at the UBC Faculty of Agricultural Sciences Learning Centre.
Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 7:14 PM on September 18, 2003
Apples! Apples! Apples! (2003)
Category(-ies): 2003 Archives
A family event for all ages, UBC Botanical Garden's 13th Annual Apple Festival takes place this year on October 18th and 19th from 11 AM to 4 PM.
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Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 6:51 PM on September 18, 2003
Water Use Policy
Category(-ies): Policies and Procedures
UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research strongly believes in water conservation, even when water restrictions are not in effect.
The current water shortage in the Greater Vancouver Regional District has prompted the garden to follow a "brown-lawn" policy for its lawn areas. Visitors to the garden will notice the stunning difference between the garden's mostly brown lawns and the lush green grass of the adjacent new housing development.
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Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 12:15 PM on September 6, 2003
Name The Apple Contest! (2003)
Category(-ies): 2003 Archives
Agriculture and Agrifood Canada is hosting a Name The Apple contest. A new variety of apple needs a name, and Ag Canada is asking the public for help. This new variety was developed by the apple breeding program at the Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre in Summerland, British Columbia.
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Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 5:04 PM on September 5, 2003
Weird Plants!
Category(-ies): In the Media
Interested in weird plants at UBC and around the world? Read this article from the National Geographic web site.
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Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 4:25 PM on September 5, 2003
Work Study Position
Category(-ies): Opportunities
One work study student position is available at UBC Botanical and Centre for Plant Research. The job involves researching online botanical and horticultural resources for inclusion in a links database that will be of value to undergraduate students.
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Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 3:12 PM on September 5, 2003
Botanical Art of Ferdinand Bauer
Category(-ies): UBC Lectures and Courses
Dr. David Mabberley, internationally-renowned botanist and botanical historian, is lecturing on the Botanical Art of Ferdinand Bauer - "The Leonardo of Natural History Illustration" on September 24 at 7:30. Tickets are $10 and are available at the Shop in the Garden and Southlands Nursery.
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Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 3:47 AM on September 5, 2003
A Research Update
Category(-ies): UBC Lectures and Courses
The garden's director, Quentin Cronk, is giving a free noon-hour lecture entitled, "A Research Update" on Monday, September 8 at the Garden. Dr. Cronk is an engaging speaker, and he will talk with enthusiasm about recent research initiatives.
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Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 3:04 AM on September 5, 2003
Browser requirements
Category(-ies): Web Site News
I'm anticipating a few complaints about the redesign of this and the other associated web sites which use a similar template because users who use Netscape 4 and Internet Explorer 4 cannot view this site as it appears to other users. For Netscape 4 users, the site appears as plain text, so it can still be read for content. For Internet Explorer 4 users, the browser's understanding of the underlying technologies used to create the display of the new site cause things to shift out of place so badly that some of the content becomes hidden.
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Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 1:28 AM on September 5, 2003
26th Annual Indoor Plant Sale (2003)
Category(-ies): 2003 Archives
The very popular Indoor Plant Sale runs from September 11 to September 13. Plants are available at student-friendly prices from 11 am to 5 pm. Dried flowers are also available (you can't kill them!).
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Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 11:43 AM on September 4, 2003