Support UD Botanic Gardens

Your support helps the advancement, improvement, and success of the UD Botanic Gardens. Your gift enables the gardens to expand as a research center, an outdoor classroom, and a laboratory.

Ways to Give

Join UDBG Friend membership
Join the Friends to cultivate your love of gardening and receive many benefits.

Give a gift in support of the gardens
Give an unrestricted gift to support garden projects, maintenance, and programs.

Herbaceous Garden Entrance
UDBG is redesigning the entrance to the Herbaceous Garden to integrate the Native, South Greenhouse, Trial, and Fischer Greenhouse Gardens, to increase usage and create new opportunities to learn.

Student Internship Program (Plant Sale Patrons)
Become a Spring Plant Sale Patron to support the Student Internship Program. Students gain practical experience and training that complements classroom learning. Gifts of $130 and above are invited to a special reception at the Spring Plant Sale, where they have the first opportunity to shop. All Patrons are listed in the Plant Sale Catalog if received prior to January 31st.

Gift in Memory or Honor
Give a gift to honor someone or to celebrate a major life event. To dedicate a bench is $5,000.00, which pays for the bench, site pad, installation, and memorial plaque. A portion of the cost is placed into an endowment for maintenance and repairs.

Matching Gifts
Check to see if your employer will match your gift to UDBG.

Gifts in Kind
UDBG accepts gifts-in-kind, such as services or equipment, when they fulfill the needs and mission of the organization.

All of the above gifts qualify as charitable contributions, and as such are deductible as prescribed by Federal and State tax laws. For further information, please contact Assistant Director Melinda Zoehrer 302-831-0153 email mzoehrer@udel.edu or

Rob M. Rudd
Senior Director of Development for Colleges and Programs
robrudd@udel.edu
302-831-7462