Wayne Roderick was a horticulturalist and senior nurseryman for the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden in the California native area from 1960 to 1976. He was born in Petaluma, California in 1920 and he was exposed to plants and gardening early on through his mother's garden and later the Roderick family nursery which ran from 1945 to 1959. Roderick was drafted after Pearl Harbor but didn't qualify for service so he spent a majority of his time learning about plants and working for his family's nursery. In 1960, he got a job at the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden in the California native area as a senior nurseryman and dealt with collecting botanical material for class use and developing the gardens. Roderick moved on to the Tilden Park Botanic Garden (1976-82) and participated in mapping, thinning, saving natural areas and native California plants. In this interview, Roderick discusses his childhood in Petaluma, California, chicken ranching, mother's garden, WWII experience, education, family nursery, management and staff of the Botanical Garden, Tilden Park Botanical Garden supporters, the California Native Plant Society, Jim Roof, the objectives of the garden, rare and endangered species inventory, Native Plant Study Group, plant collecting policies, botanists and taxonomists and English horticulturalists. Appended are articles by Roderick. See also Blake Estate, Lincoln Constance, James B. Kendrick and Lurline Roth. This interview is part of a group of interviews documenting California horticulture.