Ubc Botanical Gardens

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Community members are encouraged to drop off Christmas trees for recycling at the UBC Botanical Garden where they will be chipped into mulch and used on garden trails (decorations must be removed). Yard trimmings will not be accepted as they may contain Premier Christy Clark's approval rating continues Premier Christy Clark’s approval rating continued to slide in the months since the province’s labour dispute with British Columbia’s teachers came to a head in June, according to the It's case We are so lucky living in Vancouver being set amidst mountains, rivers and beautiful greenery. This summer take advantage of having your kids explore outside, making lifelong connections with nature, and sign up for the Young Explorers camp at Canada's These are difficult-to-obtain items that can't be bought elsewhere." There will be three rare peonies (Paeonia rockii), which originated as gifts from the Nanjing Botanical Garden to UBC in the 1990s. These are expected to sell for at least $100 each. It is surely a sign of a new age dawning. The theme of this year’s annual plant sale A Growing Affair at the University of British Columbia Botanical Garden is food. “Growing food, biodiversity and sustainable food sources is theme of the year at the Alastair Bruce Macdonald, a former director of UBC Botanical Garden, has passed away following a long illness. Macdonald came to Canada in 1980 to take on the role of associate director at the Botanical Garden, with responsibility for horticulture and .

So what’s to see at these gardens? The UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research Time Required for a Visit: It takes an avid plantsperson about 4+ hours to comb through every trail and closely examine all the plantings, both new and old. The UBC Botanical Garden is a somewhat hidden (but sizeable) jewel at the intersection of SW Marine Drive and W16th Avenue. The garden sprawls over 110 wildly distinctive acres, with, at one extremity, an Asian garden with rare rhododendrons, and at The program has been designed and initiated by Douglas Justice, curator of collections and associate director of the UBC Botanical Garden, and Patrick Lewis, the director of UBC Biodiversity Collections, which includes the Beaty Museum and the UBC The UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research, including the Nitobe Memorial Garden, have joined the Faculty of Science. The transfer of these major venues to UBC Science creates a cluster of biodiversity and natural history related attractions .