Douglas Justice's November in the Garden 2024 - UBC Botanical Garden blog starts out There is certainly plenty of colour from the Hesperantha coccinea on the entrance plaza, still in bloom after how many months?! Also still in bloom there is Fuchsia 'Little Giant', with its small purple flowers mostly hidden by the red calyces. There are flowers on California fuchsia, Epilobium canum 'Olbrich Silver', near the trough Courtyard in the north garden. Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii has been blooming profusely for several months, but I just found out the name from the blog, and now there are just a few flowers remaining. No doubt there is a label in there somewhere, but I never found it. Here are a few flowers not in the blog. Helichrysum trilineatum, like the Rudbeckia, just has a few flowers remaining. This Hypericum kouytchense I thought was new to me, but I see I posted it in 2019, and these seem to be fruits not flowers. Here are flowers, Anaphalis sinica, pearly everlasting, a common name I've known but never knew what it looked like. This photo is so fuzzy, you probably are not going to get the idea here. Fruits will be next, but not till tomorrow.
I think these two Elaeagnus were mentioned with regard to flowers and their fragrance, but I didn't notice flowers or fragrance yesterday. This is Elaeagnus glabra, smooth oleaster, climbing high onto a western red cedar. The more accessible Elaeagnus macrophylla is one I did see flowers on (and smell them) in September, 2022. I can segue into fruits from here - this oleaster is climbing on a now much showier Cotoneaster glabratus, not mentioned in the blog. Some red fruits that were mentioned are on trees that have all had name changes. Pourthiaea villosa used to be called Photinia villosa. I have never heard its name before, but I've wondered about the ID for years. Now if I could just remember it. Aria yuana has so many pomes that the whole tree looks red. This used to be Sorbus yuana. Another red-fruited ex-Sorbus is Hedlundia hybrida, Finnish whitebeam. There are two of these trees in what was once the Winter Garden (and is now what?). Those two trees flank the remaining Sorbus 'Joseph Rock', with brilliant yellow pomes (the younger one is no longer on the entrance plaza). I'll segue to yellow foliage in the next posting.
I see that this is not my first yellow-in-November posting. You probably don't remember what I posted five and ten years ago. I only have the leaves of the Ginkgo biloba right at the official garden entrance. Lindera obtusiloba Boehmeria platanifolia This maple has a red label, which means the name is in question. The label says Acer hybrid (A. campbellii x A. palmatum?). The label shows it was accessioned in 2020 - I guess it was a sizeable tree when it was planted. This Acer palmatum 'Seiryu' doesn't look yellow from a distance, but there are yellow leaves. Nyssa sylvatica Liriodendron tulipifera. I always find the leaf scars so surprising on these trees. Here's some colour variation. Torminalis glaberrima Enkianthus perulanthus in the Alpine Garden. Behind that is Stewartia sinensis.
