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This "lovely" convolvulus is in fact a garden escape, as is probably most of the bindweed around our area. The plant in the photo is C....
Hi John, Our Bowkeria cymosa appeared as though it was meant to become a shrub. Ours never progressed beyond a die back perennial, to about 60cm...
My pleasure, LabTea. Anytime (from Spring, that is) you want to take another interesting image(s) of Labradorian plants, please feel free to send...
I hope you will start a small alpine/rock garden. What a unique garden that would be! Incidentally, have you heard to the Tromso Botanic Garden?...
My pleasure to see it. I was really happy to view up close a truly "overlooked" plant brought to some greater attention. If you were to start a...
Wow, what an impressive little plant. I can grow many alpine and rock plants in the favoured climate of Vancouver, but nothing like a simple yet...
Hello, I work as the curator of the alpine garden with the Cryptomeria pic. I don't believe that it's ever been pruned to shape it but has grown...
Grevillea 'Canberra Gem' is of course named for Canberra, capital of Australia. We should be careful not to confuse it with our neighbour city,...
Hi Heather, No, thanks but thats not it. I've grown various Rehmannia and know well the one you speak of. I love that plant, but this is...
I have been growing a small Penstemon for a few years. I photographed it and researched it and can't seem to put my finger on an i.d. Notice the...
Hi, I can identify these plants for you. They are: 1) Ceratostigma plumbaginoides 2) Geranium renardii 3) Teucrium hyrcanicum (becoming a...
Hi, since I'm managing the alpine garden, I can provide names for the first 3 plants: first is Chionochloa conspicua. Second is Hebe...
Thanks. Years ago I cut some long trunks of an old Syringa, discovering as I did that the interior had a lovely purple heartwood. I put those...
I will soon remove a long branching stem of E. coccifera, where it is overhanging a path. It is about 12+ft long by 6"/15cm diameter. To see...
Hi Jane. I grew up in Parksville, very similar climate, just down the road from Courtenay. My best guess is sometime around the first week of...
are both of you growing any other species, varieties of Grevillea as well? G. rosmarinifolia (tiny plant!) is in flower at UBCBG (bot gdn) now.
I visited South Winchelsea Island in 1999. Its size is about 25 acres, and its covered with lovely Quercus garryana, Camassia quamash, Sedum...
Hi, I'm growing/did grow that big A. manzanita in the alpine garden here at UBCBG. Its interesting that someone mentioned wind, as it used to be...
In the EH Lohbrunner Alpine Garden at the botanical garden at UBC there is a specimen of Quercus chrysolepis, (Canyon Oak), native to central...
Hi! As far as I can tell, they're both Crassulas. The one on the right looks like C. falcata. I'm waiting for the one I have to produce its...
