Biodiversity Days 2022 Recap: Reflecting on our Celebration of Nature!
Read about the return of the Biodiversity Days experience series, and the fantastic participation and response from the community.
July in the Garden 2022
Following on from the June blog, July in the Garden also describes a trail in the David C. Lam Asian Garden, and named garden spaces.
Biodiversity Days: Family Nature Walk returned for its Second Annual Celebration
Follow the journey of young nature-lovers, as they experienced this year’s second annual Family Nature Walk as part of our month-long Biodiversity Days celebration.
Douglas Justice awarded Silver American Rhododendron Society medal
We are pleased to announce that Douglas Justice has been awarded the Americal Rhododendron Society Silver medal.
Drop-in Tours
Join us for a drop-in tour at 11 am | Nitobe: Thursday, UBC Botanical Garden: Saturdays & Sunday
Group Experiences and Tours
Tours, Field Trips, and Team Building Welcome! UBC Botanical Garden is located on the traditional and unceded land of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Musqueam First Nation. We are pleased to offer a diversity of experiences adaptable to the needs of your group. Explore our many gardens and discover the wonders of plants, people and biodiversity! Book now […]
March in the Garden 2022
Following on from a year of weather-related surprises, I am continuing with the theme of cautious weather forecasting. I will refrain from predicting the normal March flowering regime, which would include (at a minimum) magnolias, primulas, rhododendrons and a wide variety of bulbs. Instead, I am falling back on another group of broadleaved evergreens. Better safe than sorry—and anyway, I seldom have occasion to highlight plants that don’t have showy flowers. The bamboos are a group of mostly attractive broad-leaved evergreens with comparatively narrow leaves.
Erin Despard: Artist in Residence update
Plant Propagation for the People: A Community Design Process
January in the Garden 2022
As I’ve said many times before in this blog space, it’s difficult to predict the weather at the Botanical Garden more than a week or two out, which leaves me with little confidence about the number of winter-flowering plants that might be blooming for a visitor’s New Year’s walk. At this writing in mid-December, Clematis cirrhosa (winter clematis), Grevillea victoriae (royal grevillea), Mahonia x media ‘Charity’ (hybrid mahonia) and Viburnum x bodnantense (Bodnant viburnum) are looking great and full of flowers. As long as it doesn’t freeze hard, all of these will still be in bloom and there will be plenty of other flowers to talk about for January. No promises, of course. I can, however, talk about a feature that isn’t in the least affected by our normal weather: bark.
BGCI Announces the Global Biodiversity Standard at COP 26
Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) announced the Global Biodiversity Standard, the world’s first and only standard to specifically recognise and promote the protection, restoration, and enhancement of biodiversity. The news follows the publication of BGCI’s State of the World’s Trees earlier this year which revealed that one in three tree species are threatened with extinction, representing almost 17,500 tree species.