UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research

Ask Your Plant Questions

UBC Botanical Garden offers two ways to ask gardening or plant-related questions:

 

Hortline - Call 604.822.5858 on Tuesday and Wednesday from 12 pm to 3 pm to speak with a garden volunteer or student who will help answer your question.

 

Online Discussion Forums - Ask your question online (and learn from others!) by visiting our web-based plant and gardening community. Please do not send gardening or plant questions via email. Use the forums and benefit from the knowledge of a community of thousands.


Contact

Click here for hours and directions

Mailing Address
6804 SW Marine Drive, Vancouver

British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z4

Website
Please email our website administrator Daniel Mosquin

General Inquiries

Main Gatehouse  
T: 604.822.4208

Nitobe Gatehouse (open April-October)  
T: 604.822.6038

Front Desk
E: botg@interchange.ubc.ca
T: 604.822.3928
F: 604.822.2016

Shop in the Garden  
E: shop.garden@ubc.ca
T: 604.822.4529
F: 604.822.1514  

HORTLINE (Wednesdays 12-3pm)
T: 604.822.5858

Giving to the Garden (donations)
Faculty of Science, Development Office
E: development@science.ubc.ca
T: 604.827.4464
F: 604.822.2391

 

Administrative Staff  

James Cowling
Booking & Administrative Coordinator (including Facility Rentals)
E: botg@interchange.ubc.ca
T: 604.822.3928

Monica Tang
Administrative Manager
E: monica.tang@ubc.ca
T: 604.822.4186

June Woodward
Shop in the Garden Manager
E: shop.garden@ubc.ca
T: 604.822.4804

Marilou Bourdages
Community Education and Volunteer Coordinator
E: mariloub@mail.ubc.ca
T: 604.690.5375

Katie Teed
Senior Marketing & Communication Manager ((UBC Biodiversity Collections)
E: garden.marketing@ubc.ca
T: 604.834.8646
Please visit the media & marketing section prior to contact for instructions and guidelines for all media, marketing, photography, film shoots, image requests, donations and sponsorship requests.

Iain Taylor
Special Projects
E: iain.taylor@ubc.ca
T: 604.822.0416

Patrick Lewis
Garden Director (UBC Biodiversity Collections Director)
E: patrick.lewis@ubc.ca
T: 604.862.5805

 
Curators, Collections and Horticulture Staff  

Douglas Justice
Associate Director & Curator of Collections
E: douglas.justice@ubc.ca
T: 604.690.4405

David Grieser
Garden Supervisor
E: david.grieser@ubc.ca
T: 604.690.3895
 
Andy Hill
Asian Garden Curator
E: andy.hill@ubc.ca
T: 604.690.5709

Brent Hine
Alpine Garden Curator
E: brent.hine@ubc.ca
T: 604.209.2340

Tony Maniezzo
Native Collections Curator
E: tony.maniezzo@ubc.ca
T: 604.690.5868

Kevin Kubeck
Nursery Supervisor
E: kevin.kubeck@ubc.ca
T: 604.822.4801

Eric Lafountaine
Accessions Technician
E: e.lafountaine@ubc.ca
T: 604.822.0969


Research Staff  

Daniel Mosquin
Research Manager
E: daniel.mosquin@ubc.ca
T: 604.827.5773

Sean Graham
Research Director
E: sean.graham@ubc.ca
T: 604.822.4816

Quentin Cronk
Professor, Plant Science Graduate Program
E: quentin.cronk@ubc.ca
T: 604.781.6740

Beryl Zhuang
Research Technician
E: bzhuang@interchange.ubc.ca

 
Emergency & UBC Contacts  

Emergency  
T: 911
 
Campus Security  
T: 604.822.2222

First Aid  
T: 604.822.4444

RCMP (non-emergency)  
T: 604.224.1322

Wescadia Catering  
T: 604.822.2018





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UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research
6804 SW Marine Drive, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1Z4
Tel: 604.822.3928
Fax: 604.822.2016 Email: botg@interchange.ubc.ca

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