Even UBC garden is in many blooms and colors I always prefer to find something what I haven't seen before. Euphorbia clavarioides, Lion's Spore. I think it is in hot bed forever. I just didn't pay attention to this South African succulent. Try to touch it! Hard as a rock, looks like a thornless cactus. I read that it blooms with small bright yellow flowers in late spring. I don't remember flowers. We missed them or it didn't bloom? Dicentra, bleeding-heart but quite different 1.Yellow(Golden Tears) 2.Vine
Here are two more I'm not so familiar with. This is Ruscus aculeatus, in the Asparagaceae family of all things. It's supposed to bloom in the spring, so these things on the cladodes wouldn't be flower buds. Red fruits would be due in summer and autumn, so maybe this is a male plant. [Edited - no those are fruits on the cladodes, are they not? So female plant.] And Celastrus scandens, which we've posted before with orange fruits becoming red when the thin covering opens up. I think these are the same plants, fruits just not ripe yet. What a great colour.
I forgot the Ptelea trifoliata again. I posted flowers in June at http://www.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/forums/showthread.php?t=86345. The groups of samara fruits on a few of the trees were so dense that they looked like roses.
