Vanishing animals command headlines but declining plant diversity also imperils humans. Researchers and educators explain how curing “plant blindness” is essential to saving biodiversity and ourselves. Food plants are a great place to dig in. Fr
Celebrating biological diversity around the world and in our Garden
Ornamental koi are once again swimming in the pond at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden. Koi salvage at Nitobe Memorial Garden on May 7, 2019 Three adult koi and 344 juvenile koi were removed from the pond last November after a river otter enter
While we have a huge diversity of maples in the Garden, the fork-branched group of maples is especially prominent.
Douglas shares his insight on the impacts of weather on flowering with Global BC.
There are some four hundred and fifty different kinds of rhododendrons in UBC Botanical Garden’s collections. Most of them flower in April, so I thought it appropriate to make this month’s offering include a few of them.
In the late fall of 2016 UBC Botanical Garden lost one of its longest-standing Friends of the Garden, Jo Bridge. Jo joined the FOGs in 1976 and served in various capacities as a volunteer for the Garden for 40 years.
An elegant occasion at the Contemporary Lawn & Arbour.
Access to UBC Botanical Garden will be impacted but maintained.
As this past February was the coldest on record for Vancouver, I am continuing with the theme of cautious weather forecasting by falling back on another group of broadleaved evergreens — bamboos.
