Always wanted your own greenhouse? Want to convert your brown thumb into a green one? Or just have a passion for unusual plants? Volunteer at the Botanical Conservatory! Volunteer Night at the Botanical Conservatory is every Wednesday evening from late February through November at 6 to 9 PM. Anyone with an interest in plants is encouraged to come and help out. The primary purpose for volunteer night is to propagate plants for the fall plant sale. Learn how to do cuttings, divide plants, and the proper way to transplant. Learn about orchids, cacti, ferns, carnivores and other weird plants from all over the planet. Many volunteers wander through the greenhouse each week to see how there favorite plants are doing. If there is something especially interesting in the greenhouse then Ernesto, curator and volunteer coordinator, will bring it in for everyone to see or we all go out to see it. For more information on volunteer night or to have your name added to the BC Volunteer e-mail list, please contact Ernesto Sandoval, jesandoval@ucdavis.edu , or call 530-752-0569.

Dividing ferns

Checking out the weird and wonderful

Sprucing, transplanting, and propagting carnivorous plants and orchids

The Botanical Conservatory is located just north of Storer Hall on the UC Davis campus. We have a map showing the exact location. If you need to drive, parking is easy in the evening on campus but is not free (summer evenings are free). A parking permit is required to park on campus. There are vending machines in the parking lots to purchase permits. The vending machines accept cash, credit cards, or ATM cards. Davis has a farmers market a few blocks from the Conservatory on Wednesday evenings.  Food vendors are at the market during the summer . Some volunteers have dinner at the farmers market and then walk over to the Conservatory. Conservatory volunteers, interns, and staff after the plant sale Conservatory Home