Visitors listen to a docent-led tour during the Twilight Tours of the botanical gardens at the UC Riverside Botanic Gardens, Friday, July 14, 2017. (Eric Reed/For The Press Enterprise/SCNG) ...

UCR's Botanic Gardens is made up of 40 hilly acres in the foothills of the Box Springs Mountains, east of the campus, so staffers say it's pretty common to see wildlife – including snakes ...

You can bring your leashed pooch, too. UCR Botanic Gardens, 1 Botanic Gardens Drive, Riverside. 951-827-7090, [email protected], gardens.ucr.edu.

Guests at the UC Riverside Botanic Garden on Sunday, July 24, 2022 look at the corpse flower that bloomed overnight. It’s the first time the flower has bloomed at UC Riverside.

A UC Riverside Botanic Garden staff member spotted two bobcat kittens and their mother hanging around the gardens earlier this month. Staff believe the mom moved the kittens to a more secluded area.

In 1986, two years before I began teaching at UCR, I taught my niece Holla to walk on the gentle paths in the camellia and azalea gardens. I’d found the Botanic Gardens accidentally, while on the way ...