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Volunteer Opportunities
| Area |
Duties |
| Tours |
We need Docents to lead tours. Its easy and we will train you! Demand is mostly for weekday mornings in the spring and early summer. Be a Docent! |
| Labeling |
"Spotting" and recording broken or missing labels, researching records, engraving, assembling and installing labels. |
| Surveying |
No experience necessary. Survey new trails and roads, building sites and individual plants for accession records under the direction of Volunteer Fred Philips or Emeritus Director Louis Erickson -- Wednesdays, 8 to noon. |
| Bloom Records |
Observe and record plants in bloom. |
| Herbarium Voucher Project | No experience necessary. Collect and press specimens of plants growing in the Gardens for the UCR Herbarium. Under direction of Andy Sanders. After training, this can be done on weekends! |
| Office Help |
A morning or afternoon commitment once a week to assist in filing, answering phones, and record keeping. Computer experience a plus but not essential. |
| The Nursery |
Propagating, potting, fertilizing, grooming, watering and organizing, also weeding, weeding and weeding both in pots and under benches. |
| Pond |
Skimming, grooming water plants and plants at pond margins, planting. |
| Gunther Dome |
Grooming, pruning, potting, sweeping, arranging, weeding, labeling. |
| The Rose Garden |
Pruning in season; weeding and mulching paths and beds, deadheading; help at Annual Rose Pruning Demonstration in January. |
| Iris Garden |
Weeding most of the year; digging, dividing and replanting in summer/fall. |
Other areas of the Gardens that need a Volunteer's touch - planting, pruning, mulching, watering and weeding:
Salvia Collection
The Fruit Orchard
The Daylily Collection
Emma Swet Bulb Garden
Summer-dry Bulb Garden
Color Beds
Mediterranean Section
Colorado Desert Section
Mojave Desert Section
Sonoran Desert Section
Boysie Day Baja Garden
New Australian Section
The Cactus Garden
Miller Mem. Azalea Garden
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