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Explore Our Collections

UBC Botanical Garden hosts an ever-growing collection of living plants from around the world.

Overview

UBC Botanical Garden is a place where visitors of all ages can explore and learn about plants from every corner of the world. Learn about the different garden areas at UBC Botanical Garden below and don’t forget a visit to our off-site Japanese Tea and Stroll Garden, Nitobe Memorial Garden.

Garden Explorer

Explore UBC Botanical Garden’s Plant Collections!
This site acts as a library of the plants within the Garden’s collections and grounds to support research, conservation, community outreach and education.

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Garden Areas

Known as the “Garden of Many Gardens”, each of our gardens is a living collection representative of a region of the world.

Significant Collections

UBC Botanical Garden curates a collection of ~30,000 plants from ~8000 accessions representing 5000 taxa from temperate regions around the world. Learn more about our most significant collections below.

Maples
Maples Despite its small size, UBC Botanical Garden is well known for the diversity and quality of its plant collections. The conditions at UBC are ideal for the cultivation of…
Rhododendrons
Rhododendrons Throughout the modern history of UBC Botanical Garden, rhododendrons have been a high collection priority. The Garden began propagating rhododendrons in 1964 with the majority of the material for…
Magnolias
Magnolias Throughout UBC Botanical Garden, both wild deciduous and evergreen species as well as cultivated selections of magnolias are prominently displayed. In the David C. Lam Asian Garden, Asian Magnolia…
Ferns
Ferns and Fern Allies UBC Botanical Garden has a diverse collection of more than 100 different ferns and fern allies. These are represented by 34 separate genera in 14 families….
Climbers
Climbers UBC Botanical Garden has an impressive collection of climbing plants. Climbers may have woody stems, or they may be herbaceous—the stems dying back to an overwintering crown every year….
Bamboos
Bamboos are members of the grass family (Poaceae) in the subfamily Bambusoidiae, a group characterized by thickened, woody stems known as culms. Native to mostly tropical and warm temperate regions…