Give to our Trees for Tomorrow campaign April 19-May 2!
Your donation will help us establish a more climate-resilient tree canopy across the UC Davis campus and provide support for the student environmental leaders central to the work. Learn more and give today!
The UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden received recognition at the Girl Scouts Heart of Central California, or GSHCC, inaugural annual fundraising event, “Gather and Give,” on October 20, 2023 at the Old Sugar Mill, in Clarksburg. The memorable evening celebrated the essence of what it means to be a Girl Scout, emphasizing the importance of programs that enhance the well-being and leadership growth of girls, while raising funds to make it possible for more underserved girls to participate in Girl Scouts.
In partnership with UC Davis' Department of Entomology and Nematology distinguished expert, Dr. Emily Meineke, we have started laying the foundation for the creation of a Phenology Garden to examine how alterations in water availability affect interactions between plants and herbivores, like insects.
Help maintain UC Davis' gorgeous campus landscapes and hardscapes by planning and repairing its irrigation systems! Apply to be an irrigation specialist at the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden, where every career employee receives extremely competitive health and retirement benefits including:
Volunteers with the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden help maintain gardens that support vital habitat for pollinators including birds, bees and a variety of other animals and insects.
Oversee the maintenance of the gorgeous campus urban canopy that serves the entire UC Davis community, from students to squirrels. Apply to be a tree maintenance supervisor, where every career employee receives extremely competitive health and retirement benefits including:
This summer, we’ve turned our efforts to upgrading outdoor areas of the Arboretum Teaching Nursery. Smooth concrete now covers the major path arteries that customers use to navigate the nursery. We’ve also enhanced the smaller paths with hexpave and gravel.
Help the UC Davis campus looks its best all year round by performing a diverse range of tasks, from cultivating plant materials and designing specialized landscapes to supervising interns and volunteers as a gardener groundskeeper at the UC Davis Arboretum, where every career employee receives extremely competitive health and retirement benefits.
Selecting climate-ready plants and appropriate plants for insect pollinators and hummingbirds is a major goal of Rachel Davis, GATEways Horticulturist for the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden. The ‘Pollinator Squad’, her group of 15 volunteers, meets weekly to develop and manage the Habitat Gardens, including the meadow basin; the Hummingbird Garden; an Insect Pollinator garden; and the bioswale which runs through the meadow basin.
Two of Abbey Hart’s volunteer teams took a field trip to Annie’s Annuals and Perennials Nursery in Richmond last month. The goal was to see the broad variety of plants that the nursery grows and sells — annuals, perennials, native plants, landscape plants, herbs and vegetables, etc., — and to allow the volunteers to purchase plants. Some of the Arboretum volunteers had been there before; for others it was an eye-popping first-time experience.
There are many kinds of gardens. Ours is like a big living room. It is full of art (I’m a painter), pottery (my husband is a potter), places to sit, sun and shade. But it wasn’t always that way. And this is why.
