Here are a couple from Douglas Justice's August 2014 in the Garden | UBC Botanical Garden blog article. Salvia guaranitica 'Black and Blue'. Lagerstroemia fauriei Some other highlights for me: This hummingbird on the Crocosmia. The bees on the cardoons (Cynara cardunculus) [edited - I've added one from two days later]. Splendid sunflowers. For leaves, this seedling of Rhododendron arizelum (the tag says "data not verified") was the winner. Or a close second for leaves, the Tilia tomentosa 'Brabant'. [edited - I've added a more convincing tree photo from two days later]
Here are some more photos from Douglas's August 2014 in the Garden | UBC Botanical Garden blog article, photos taken on August 8. I think this must be the Phlox carolina 'Bill Baker', on the Entrance Plaza. Ceratostigma plumbaginoides - we're to notice the glossy red-edged leaves. The first ones are on the Entrance Plaza; the third photo is from the Alpine Garden. Epilobium canum subsp. latifolium, common name California fuchsia. Campsis x tagliabuana 'Madame Galen', trumpet creeper draping over the Arbour. Kniphofia triangularis and K. nelsonii (third photo). I didn't find the Hydrangea aspera 'Peter Chappell' mentioned in the blog, but here's H. aspera subsp. sargentiana. I edited the previous posting to add a cardoon and a linden (Tilia) photo.
Here are a few more I liked that are not mentioned in the blog. We got a hint that this should be Coreopsis, so I'm guessing Coreopsis verticillata 'Moonbeam'. These are taller than Nadia and I are. Here is Coreopsis rosea. There were lots of bees around these Helenium 'Baudirektor Linne'. I've posted lots of Datisca cannabina, but I can't help myself - I really like this plant. Aronia melanocarpa have appeared here several times too. They're ripe now. We're eating them. We're not supposed to eat the crops, as they're given to a food bank, but we're pretty sure the Aronia are not being harvested. Nadia says they're very nutritious.
I thought I'd posted enough before I got around to these Cynara photos, and then today when I wanted to reference them, they're not here. Globe artichoke is in the foreground, Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus, with Cardoon, Cynara cardunculus, in the background.
