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I always like finding these guys. Amazing that they would pop up in the desert, although in commercial potting soil near annuals purchased as...
WARNING graphic image of bird death. I was having my morning coffee at our Tucson home. I looked out the large windows of the front veranda and...
I found this puzzling leaf on an orange tree. Two leaves formed along the same central vein.
Hey All, I've been kind of quiet for a while. My husband took a new position in San Diego last year. I stayed in Vancouver and worked through...
Found this lovely group of Amanita in someone's yard in Seattle near Seattle University. The big open one is 9 inches, 23 cm across. It was like a...
I took photos of random patterns on leaves and such the last time I walked through the Garden. The water on this leaf kept rolling up and down its...
This shrub is flowering in Tuscon now and for the past few weeks. No one seems to know what it is. It's heavily visited by bees.
I found these small red mushrooms in the Asian Garden last week. I have no idea what they are. The open caps are 3 cm across. Grey gills. I just...
The fruit of the Decaisnea insignis is ripe. This lovely contrast of blue on yellow greeted me today.
I have been taking walks in my neighborhood lately (central Vancouver nearish to QE Park) and there are a lot of trees and other flowers blooming...
Spring is happening, but the UBC Botanical Garden remains closed due to the pandemic situation. I will likely miss the bloom of many of our prized...
I was working in my garden several years back when I spotted a blue pill bug (rolly polly, woodlouse, whatever you call Armadillidiidae). I was...
I came across this whimsical hedge on a walk near my home in Vancouver.
It's very cold and snowy at the Garden recently. You have to admire the tough little humming birds. This one was feeding from a mahonia, (Berberis...
This plant always puts on quite a fall show in the Garden.
I came upon these lovely earthstars in the Asian Garden this week.
There have been a lot of mushrooms popping up in the yard and flower beds this fall. I really like investigating them. While I was using the leaf...
At the weekly Friend's of the Garden meeting here this week, one of the members was telling me that she had seen raccoons nibbling the fruit from...
Continuing conversation from maples Forum on naming hybrids. http://www.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/forums/showthread.php?t=85998 Originally...
This certainly is one of the best years for magnolia flowers in Vancouver. I thought I'd share a few photos of less traditional views of the...