I had on my calendar to see the leaves on Quercus kelloggii, but not the reason why or who recommended the visit. My timing last Wednesday was pretty good - maybe even the date was given to me. Thank you, whoever that was. I posted Sorbaria tomentosa the week before, but the new leaves were more interesting last Wednesday. Salix nakamurana var. yezoalpina. I was going to say "fav of the week", but I guess that title has been given out. This is definitely up there. Schefflera minutistellata. I'm not sure these are new leaves on the Nothofagus antarctica. It was the branch arrangement I liked. The Petasites japonicus var. giganteus leaves are past the new stage, but not tall enough to think of finding hobbit houses underneath. It's a trick to catching them late enough that they're of a truly impressive size yet before they get eaten by whatever it is that enjoys feeding on them so much.
I promised flowers. I'm sure this first one isn't what you were expecting, but it took me an hour to identify it, so it's getting posted. Too bad I didn't look it up when it was mentioned (not too admiringly) in a thread a while ago. Claytonia sibirica, Siberian miner's lettuce. I don't remember noticing flowers on the Epimedium wushanense before - I've always been interested in the leaves. Here's another yellow - Erythranthe guttata. Deutzia gracilis 'Nikko' in the Asian Alpine Garden. This is my last posting of Melliodendron xylocarpum for this year. Last flower posting, anyway. The pink-flowered one seems to be the last to bloom, and it was just past peak bloom on Wednesday.
♫ "Under the boardwalk, ..." All these photos are from my visit a week ago. Here are the last flowers of the Magnolia laevifolia. The Rubus lineatus new leaf undersides are glistening, just about under the boardwalk. On the boardwalk, at the entrance to the Campbell building, are two fairly new planters. Here are Hosta 'Blue Mouse Ears' (great name, and I see @Acerholic has a 'Mouse Ears') and Acer palmatum 'Aoyagi-gawa'. I was waiting for a better photo of the maple, but I've given up. Moving on, here is Paeonia rockii again, posted in the blog thread last week. The Rubus 'Tricolor' feels more benignly fuzzy than it looks. Decaisnea insignis fruits are starting to form. Nearby is Deutzia calycosa 'Dali'. I didn't see the label, but this looks like the individual (and the setting) in Garden Explorer. I'm so grateful to @Nadia White Rock for patiently replying "Deutzia" every time I asked about one. It seemed to take me several years to get it.
Here are two more flowers. I had a brief chat with Linda Layne, who sent me down to the amphitheatre to see the Crinodendron hookerianum. I used to be able to see two of these at the Coal Harbour Community Centre, but they're gone from there, and I'm a big fan of these, so this was exciting. And I wrote that found something new, but I see that I posted it last July. Maybe next time I post it I will remember it. Pontechium maculatum, Russian bugloss.
