I decided to post maybe not most beautiful flowers of UBC Garden, there are a lot of them. What UBC Garden has and what we don't see everyday on streets, in parks and private backyards. Or at least what I found rare for myself. Hydrangea heteromalla, native to the Himalayas and China, looks very different than our hydrangeas. it looks like a tree! Is this a tree? Kunzea muelleri, native to Australia. I am sorry for my bad photo, I read that this plant covers the ground in nature, attracting bees, butterflies and birds Moraea alticola, native to high African elevation.It looks like iris to me and it is from the same family. Flowers smell,every flower has an eye. Leaves are amazingly long. Phlox adsurgens Wagon Wheel, probably not rare? It looked so attractive to me... Daphne giraldii,native to N. China. Just I like all daphnes, although they are poison. No smell, flowers small and not bright, but where else we can see flowers like that? Calycanthus florida, spicy bush, this beautiful plant greets us before we enter the garden. Look how big and special flowers, smell it.
That last one is 'Hartlage Wine'. 'Hartlage Wine' is an intergeneric hybrid of Calycanthus floridus and Sinocalycanthus chinensis, the Chinese wax plant. This plant was developed through the efforts of Richard Hartlage while a student at NC State in the early 1990s Note from wcutler 2017sep25: I have updated this link: https://extensiongardener.ces.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/2002-112.pdf?fwd=no
What we don't see everyday on streets, end of June Carpinus fangiana, Fang hornbeam, a handsome, rare large-leafed hornbeam with pendent, tail-like catkins up to 50 cm long(not this on) Rubus tricolor,Chinese creeping bramble bush, groundcover with shiny leaves started to bloom Opuntia aurea from hot Arizona Sub-tropical or tropical Fabiana with white and purple flowers, Solanaceae(tomato, potato) family So special Diplarrena moraea, White Iris, from Tasmania and Australia Zenobia pulverulenta, a relative to Rhododendrons
That Opuntia aurea was awesome. The petals look like shiny plastic, but they just feel like normal petals.
I'm seeing Opuntia autea that are yellow, as would be consistent with the name, and others that are pink, but not any photos that show these translucent-looking petals. This is very pretty, and now I see that it's unusual too.
Thanks to Chris Glenn at NCSU for looking up and sending me the current link to the page about this. The name in their article is x Sinocalycalycanthus raulstonii 'Hartlage Wine'. I like the repetition of the "caly".
