Monday, March 12, 2012
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

LECTURE
Series: Inside the Garden
Location:UBC Botanical Garden, Reception Center, 6804 SW Marine Drive.

Botanical Gardens are accessible, living collections of plants. UBC Botanical Garden has some 48,000 plants representing about 7550 different kinds, and as they say, each plant has a story to tell. Botanical Garden staff might have germinated the seeds and gardeners nurtured the tiny seedlings into fine specimens, but that's neither the beginning, nor the end of the story. Join UBC Botanical Garden's curator of collections, Douglas Justice for an exploration and explanation of botanical garden science as it's practiced at UBC, and for a few stories, too.

Speaker: Douglas Justice, Associate Director and Curator of Collections at UBC Botanical Garden
Along with duties as the Associate Director and Curator of Collections, Douglas also teaches in both the Applied Biology and Masters of Landscape Architecture programs at UBC and is involved with public and industry extension. A former nursery manager, gardener and horticulture instructor, he is an active member of a number of local, national and international plant and garden organizations and is currently writing a book on trees for the Vancouver area.

Please Note: Coffee and tea will be available, by donation.