UC Riverside Botanic Gardens

We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday from being busy bees and stayed cool!

Look who doesn’t mind the heat! If you want to venture out, there’s still a lot in bloom this month…stay cool everyone!

The Gardens will be closed Sunday, August 28, while staff and volunteers enjoy vacations from the heat. As always we are seeking more volunteers to serve as gat...

The UCRBG will close at noon tomorrow but will return to our summer 8-2 hours on Friday. Meanwhile we’re wishing some of these beautiful clouds would bring a li...

August heat doesn’t deter all blooming. Check out this hearty Rosie the Riveter in our upper Rose Garden for some summer color.

Only a few more days until our next Twilight Tour!

Come check out our busy butterflies! Experts will be on hand Sunday to answer all your questions.

Grand finale! Until next time, Little Miss Stinky bids you farewell…

Watch a time lapse video of Little Miss Stinky! Anybody have smell-o-vision? Visit the CNAS page for all our corpse plant coverage: https://cnas.ucr.edu/corpse-...

Nothing to see here folks! With help from Karene Trunnelle from the UCR Citrus Variety Collection, Curator Janine put a pollen collecting collar on Little Miss ...

Monday science update—pollen collection underway! Spathe was left on overnight to allow Little Miss Stinky to close, then removed before it and the pollen dried...

Here’s a little look back at our Saturday night watch party…

Thank you everyone who made Little Miss Stinky’s debut flowering such a fantastic event. She is closing now and the stink has subsided, so now we’re beginning t...

Huge day for Little Miss Stinky! She will likely close tonight, then we will embark on pollen collection and storage. Thanks to UCR TAPS for parking leniency du...

Stunning (and stinky) inside and outside the greenhouse at 5 am. We’ll be open 8-4 today!