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'Whitcomb' is about 20% out at UBC. These are trees are near the parking lot and are not grafted. They are still looking healthy (no signs of...
Just going through some images of a trip to Hawaii in April of 2017. We were in the McBryde Garden (National Tropical Botanical Garden) in Kauai....
Does anyone know who is the Seabrook of Rhododendron 'Grace Seabrook' fame? Is this person a Pacific Northwest hybridizer?
Please see the attached file: A history of UBC Botanical Garden's Plant Introduction Scheme.
A few years ago I was browsing in a roadside nursery in Mexico (San Luis Potosi State). I took a picture of this plant, but have not been able to...
For years I told people that only Lagerstroemia fauriei was the only crepe myrtle we could grow in the Vancouver area. I based this on my...
I looked for a label on this plant at Mt Usher Gardens in southern Ireland earlier this year (to no avail). Very attractive suckering large...
I'm hoping someone will know the name of these Cryptomeria japonica cultivars. Possible names are 'Compacta' (a.k.a. 'Lobbii Compacta') and...
One of our volunteers dug this up today (in a Vancouver garden). It has a familiar look, but I just can't place it. Anybody out there recognize it?
This is apparently an orchid from Peru. Anybody recognize it?
A number of us involved with the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival thought it would be a good idea to try to propagate some of the rarest of...
I came across this viviparous begonia at Las Pozas (Edward James's garden) in Xilitla, Mexico last week. I'm afraid the images aren't great—it was...
It probably sounds strange, but I have no idea what to make of this 1.5 m tall shrub. Every time I think it looks like something (Urticaceae,...
I photographed this lovely fuzzy headed composite while on a tour (with the International Plant Propagator's Society) at Te Horo Ornamentals...
[Edited by wcutler 2011aug3: comments removed no longer relevant after thread reorganization] With respect to P. serrulata var. spontanea, I...
This year, it seems like it’s either feast or famine when it comes to blossoms. Now that it has warmed up (and raining), all of the early and...
The city should be awash in cherry blossoms. At the vernal equinox last year, ‘Jugatsu-zakura’, ‘Autumnalis Rosea’, ‘Whitcomb’,...
Check out this cultivar, photographed on a street in Edinburgh, Scotland, 7 May 2008. Not my cup of tea (too dark and imposing in the landscape),...
[Edited by wcutler: this conversation started in the Takasago thread; in this thread, I've removed the first two paragraphs that were about...
I estimate we’re close to two weeks behind normal flowering in some cherries. Last year—what I consider a fairly typical year—the ‘Akebono’ trees...