After visiting the UBC botanical garden on 4th April 2018, I bussed across town to Vancouver’s better known more formal VanDusen botanical garden, although it’s a younger garden (from 1970) against UBC which was established in 1916. The rain started when I arrived and I didn’t have that much time. Nevertheless, here are a few impressions!
Hydrophyllum (water leaf / Indian salad) is one of the 80 in my book!
Sedum oreganum
Erythronium “Kondo”
Today in the garden (in flower) from L to R: Ribes sanguineum, Lysichiton americanum, Ribes sanguineum “White Icicle” and Camellia japonica
Today in the garden (in flower) from L to R: Carylopsis pauciflora, Synthuris missurica, edible Primula elatior and Pulmonaria angustifolia and Pieris japonica “Christmas Cheer”
Near the garden entrance was a native garden. Here, native edible Mahonia nervosa
Native edibles Camassia leichtlinii, Allium cernuum, Triteleia laxa and Trillium ovatum!
Native Allium cernuum
Kinnikinnick / Common Bearberry, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi. I was surprised to see this familiar Norwegian plant (melbær) growing in this totally different climate on coastal dunes in Oregon during my visit there!
Native edible Camassia leichtlinii
Waterleaf (Indian salad) (Hydrophyllum) at the perfect stage for harvesting!
Waterleaf (Indian salad) (Hydrophyllum) at the perfect stage for harvesting!
Trillium sessile “Rubrum”
Pulmonaria “Sissinghurst White”
Variegated bulbous oat grass (Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. bulbosum “Variegatum”)
An East African Alchemilla ellenbeckii
South American section with Monkey Puzzle tree
Young shoots of Gunnera manicata
Emerging sleeping giant Gunnera manicata
Canada geese
Rhus typhina, Staghorn Sumac
Betula utilis
I don’t remember seeing this conifer before: Cathaya argyrophylla
The Sino-Himalayan Garden
Prunus mume, Japanese apricot
Staphylea holocarpa shoots
Saxifraga cortusifolia is used in Japan, probably in tempura
Ostrich Fern
Saxigraga stolonifera “Harvest Moon”, the main species used in tempura in Japan
Perennial vegetables, Edimentals (plants that are edible and ornamental) and other goings on in The Edible Garden