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‘Botanical Entanglements’ opens Saturday at UC Botanical Garden 

Berkeley artist Juniper Harrower explores our complicated history with flora in the new ecological art exhibition.

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2 UC Berkeley trees over age 150 were damaged in last week’s storms

At the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden, part of a redwood sheared off and flattened a buckeye.

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Squished newts are drowning at bottom of leaky UC Botanical Garden pond

The garden is trying to raise $150,000 to seal the 80-year-old pond’s cracks, which the newts are getting stuck in, plug sinkholes and resurface the basin.

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Newts are safe in tanks as UC Botanical Garden patches the bottom of the pond...

Newts were getting lodged in holes at the bottom of the leaky Japanese Pool and were unable to surface for air. They'll be returned to the pond once it's repaired.

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Around Berkeley: Indigenous Peoples Day Powwow, pumpkin patch, music at the...

Other events include a First Friday Block Party at Gilman District, a free community day at BAMPFA and a plant sale at the Botanic Garden at Tilden.

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A glass dome? A pedestrian bridge? UC Botanical Garden dreams big

A $40 million visitor center with a glass atrium and a bridge linking the main garden to the Redwood Grove are among the ideas floated in a new long-range plan.

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Around Berkeley: Parties for reading comics and listening to unreleased Green...

Other events include a new exhibition at Alma Rise Gallery, an Electric Squeezebox Orchestra concert and another Werner Herzog film.

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UC Berkeley Botanical Garden’s Tropical House reopens after $2.3M renovation

After being closed for four years, the long-awaited opening of the 50-year-old greenhouse will take place this weekend, showcasing exotic, rare and endangered tropical plants.

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