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The Great UBC Magnolia Sale (2009)
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Updated April 2, 2009 -- thank you for your orders! There may be more next year, as well as a few choice plants available at this year's Collectors' Plant Auction.
Advance orders are now being accepted for the 2009 sale of hard-to-find magnolias.
Twelve choice cultivars are represented by over eighty trees.
For details on the plants being offered, please see the 2009 Rare Magnolia Sale fact sheet (PDF).
Please note:
All trees were grafted to Magnolia kobus root stock for hardiness and early flowering. Grafting was done in 2007. Trees were pot grown in 1 gallon air pruning containers under protection in a hoop house. Trees have excellent root systems, show strong growth, and are 75 to 100cm tall. Trees will be ready for pick up in late February 2009 at the Shop in the Garden at the UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Reseach.
GST & PST are extra.
To reserve your magnolia, call the Shop in the Garden at 604-822-4529 between 10am and 4:30pm (note holiday closure from Dec. 24 to Jan. 11 inclusive), or call Charlie at 604-929-5706 in the evenings.
Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 9:44 AM on December 17, 2008
Chip In! Christmas Tree Recycling (2008/2009)
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Chip In! Christmas Tree Recycling at UBC Botanical Garden
Date: Friday December 26, 2008 to Sunday January 11, 2009
Time: 9:00am to 4:30pm daily
Location: UBC Botanical Garden parking lot, at 6804 South West Marine Dr.
Event Description: Be sustainable! Drop off your Christmas tree (only) to be chipped into mulch for Garden trails. Please remove all tree stands, decorations, lights and tinsel. All dates and times are self-serve drop off.
Your help is mulch appreciated!
For additional information, please call 604-822-4208.
Please Note: If you enjoyed this sustainable service, feel free to mail your donations to "UBC Botanical Garden" (RE: Education and Outreach). This sustainability initiative is proudly sponsored by: TD Friends of the Environment Foundation,
UBC Plant Operations, UBC Campus and Community Planning, and UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research.
See the poster: 2008-2009 Christmas Tree Chip In (PDF)
Bonus reading from the Recycling Council of British Columbia:
Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 10:25 AM on December 16, 2008
UBC Botanical Garden Holiday Hours
Category(-ies): 2008 Archives
UBC Botanical Garden will be open every day excluding Christmas through the winter holidays from 9:00am to 4:30pm.
Nitobe Memorial Garden will be closed from December 24 to January 1. On January 2, it will reopen with its regular wintertime non-holiday weekday schedule.
The Shop in the Garden will close at 4pm on December 23 and reopen at 9:30am on January 12.
Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 9:47 AM on December 16, 2008
Shop in the Garden Holiday Sale (2008)
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From now until closing at 4pm on December 23, the Shop in the Garden is hosting a holiday sale -- 25% off all holiday items and wreaths (sorry, the wreaths are now sold out!).
Free parking is available.
Directions to UBC Botanical Garden.
Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 2:38 PM on December 15, 2008