All photos were taken in August 2014
There is a lot to see at VanDusen Botanical Garden in Vancouver BC. It's a more traditional botanical garden than the UBC Botanical Garden in Vancouver, or the Washington Park Arboretum in Seattle, which are more forested & informal. VanDusen Botanical Garden reminds me of botanical gardens in New York & London. The RHS Garden at Wisley comes to mind. There is a beautiful visitor center, plant collections from Asia, the southern hemisphere including Chile, Australia & New Zealand, the Mediterranean, eastern North America, redwoods & other conifers including members of the cypress family, also lindens, maples, ashes, mountain ashes & rhododendrons. The diversity of plants is quite amazing. The are also interesting features including 5 lakes, a meditation garden, an Elizabethan maze, a tiny farm with vegetables, bees & medicinal plants. a formal rose garden, a rock garden, a fragrance garden & even more. It's really quite a beautiful, diverse & interesting place, well worth a visit when you are in Vancouver. The garden opened in 1975 & has had plenty of time to grow impressively. It covers 55 acres (22 hectares) & is open every day of the year, except Christmas Day.
There is a lot to see at VanDusen Botanical Garden in Vancouver BC. It's a more traditional botanical garden than the UBC Botanical Garden in Vancouver, or the Washington Park Arboretum in Seattle, which are more forested & informal. VanDusen Botanical Garden reminds me of botanical gardens in New York & London. The RHS Garden at Wisley comes to mind. There is a beautiful visitor center, plant collections from Asia, the southern hemisphere including Chile, Australia & New Zealand, the Mediterranean, eastern North America, redwoods & other conifers including members of the cypress family, also lindens, maples, ashes, mountain ashes & rhododendrons. The diversity of plants is quite amazing. The are also interesting features including 5 lakes, a meditation garden, an Elizabethan maze, a tiny farm with vegetables, bees & medicinal plants. a formal rose garden, a rock garden, a fragrance garden & even more. It's really quite a beautiful, diverse & interesting place, well worth a visit when you are in Vancouver. The garden opened in 1975 & has had plenty of time to grow impressively. It covers 55 acres (22 hectares) & is open every day of the year, except Christmas Day.
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