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The UBC Botanical Garden is located on the campus of the University
of British Columbia in Vancouver, near the Pacific Ocean coast.
Being in the rainy northwest, it's a lush green place, and the
garden is beautifully maintained. It's also huge (52 acres), including
several distinct gardens.
These pictures are in the first garden you go through after the
entrance -- the David C. Lam Asian Garden. We only scratched the
surface, visiting less than half of this garden.
Macro shot of rock plant
After going underneath the road (SW Marine Drive) through a tunnel,
we reached a rock wall filled with labels and small plants growing
in all the cracks. Above is one of them. All of the gardens except
for the Asian Garden lie on this side of the tunnel.
This and the following pictures are from the Perennial Borders.
The Food Garden contains fruit and vegetables which are actually
harvested and the food donated.
The fruit trees are grown and pruned in such a way as to create
geometrical shapes. This is just one of them. The one below is
more entertaining.
That's not some artificial wire with green stuff growing on it
-- those are branches of a tree!
Checking out the vegetable garden
Water droplets clinging to a leaf in the Physick Garden
In the E.H. Lohbrunner Alpine Garden
Hey, I just take the pictures. I don't make this stuff up.
Close-up of a flower on the tree shown below
Bee!
Close-up of the green stuff below. It was surprisingly hard to
the touch.
The UBC Garden is definitely a place worth visiting. We spent
a couple hours there, and we didn't even cover the Winter Garden,
the B.C. Native Garden, the Contemporary Garden, or most of the
Asian Garden.
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