Garden Delights

Program provided in partnership with UBC Botanical Garden

Enjoy an outdoor, nature-based week at the beautiful UBC Botanical Garden. Explore the forest and food gardens and experience a treetop adventure! Campers connect with Indigenous land history and local plants, while exploring science and biodiversity.  Campers will get creative with arts and crafts inspired by a wondrous week in nature, and expand their learning through hands-on activities and fun.

Daily Themes:

•    Monday - Garden Tour & Orientation
•    Tuesday - Plant Survival 101
•    Wednesday - Forest Ecology & Treetop Walk
•    Thursday - Seeds & Flowers
•    Friday - Pollination

Activities and themes are subject to change.

Required Equipment: Weather appropriate clothing that is easy to move and play games in. 

Location Details: This camp meets outside the Reception Centre at UBC's Botanical Garden (6804 SW Marine Drive). This camp runs both inside the Reception Centre at the UBC Botanical Garden, and rain or shine in a variety of outdoor spaces during Spring Break. This camp is fully outdoors during the summertime.

Extra Care Eligibility:
- Before Care on South Campus
- After Care on South Campus

This camp is presented in collaboration with UBC Botanical Garden, Canada's oldest university botanical garden (est. 1916). UBC Botanical Garden grows on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam people.  The Garden curates a diverse living collection of plants native to British Columbia and plants from all over the world, which are maintained for the purposes of education, research, conservation, community outreach, and public display.

Consent Form: UBC Camps Adventure Add-Ons Consent
A digital copy of the consent form is completed during online registration. In-person or over the phone registration requires a paper copy be submitted prior to the first day of camp.