Volunteer Program
Volunteer Orientation
What You Can Do
As a nonprofit organization, San Diego Botanic Garden depends upon volunteer support. Volunteers create and staff Garden projects, help with day-to-day garden administration, represent San Diego Botanic Garden in community and school outreach programs, and lead tours for school children and adults.
If you are interested in an exciting and rewarding place to contribute some time, please consider becoming a volunteer at San Diego Botanic Garden.
Volunteers are needed in the following areas:
- Receptionist/general office
- Special event staffing (concerts, fundraising events, etc.)
- Outreach programs, both community and classrooms
- Membership
- Garden grooming
- Staffing the Gift Shop
- Working with children and families in Seeds of Wonder Children’s Garden (pre-school aged)
and Hamilton Children’s Garden (school aged)
Interested volunteers can receive docent training in:
- Botany
- Propagation
- Public education
- Garden development
- Nursery management
- Collections/curatorial work
- Conservation
- California Native Plants
Volunteers who are between the ages of 14 and 18 may volunteer with a parent or guardian. San Diego Botanic Garden no longer accepts community service/court-ordered volunteers.
Please read through the application, fill it out, and bring it to Shamayne Logan or Pat Hammer in the Administration Offices, Monday through Friday, between 9am and 5pm. We will need to make a copy of your current photo ID before you start, so please bring one with you.
Click Here for the volunteer application >> (PDF File)
Please visit the San Diego Botanic Garden website for docents and volunteers >>
Docent Meetings — Everyone Welcome
The docent/volunteer meeting starts at 9:30 a.m. on the first Wednesday of every month, except June and December when it starts at
10:00 a.m. and is a potluck. There is NO meeting in July. Normally there is a special presentation which begins at 11:00 a.m., after the general business and announcements have concluded.
January: Fungi in Your Garden: Friend, Foe or Food. Paul Maschka, passionate environmentalist and horticulture consultant, will speak about the role of mushrooms in the garden and our environment.
February: Mo Price became interested in Australian plants shortly after becoming a Docent at San Diego Botanic Garden in 2001. She was awestruck by some of the beautiful and unusual plants from Australia and soon discovered that most Australian plants are evergreen, looking nice year-round, even when they are not blooming. She started visiting local nurseries on a weekly basis, hoping a new species would be waiting for her when she arrived. She currently has over 100 Australian Natives in her garden. In May 2009, she spent a week with Jo O’Connell, the foremost expert in Australian natives, at Jo’s nursery in Ventura County. This was a fantastic learning experience which dramatically enhanced Mo’s knowledge of Australian plants. Mo will talk about growing requirements and show slides of some beautiful Australian plants that would be a welcome addition to your garden.
March: Bette Childs and Joan Espy of the Flower Girls will show how to create containers with drought tolerant plants.
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