Photos of the garden are usually taken on weekend mornings throughout the year. These photos are used for various projects, for exampleThe Jade Garden authored by the Curators of the Botanical Garden and available from the Shop in the Garden, for lectures and workshops, and for research and plant identification.

All the photos on our website are from our collections, most usually from the archives of the "Botany Photo of the Day" on the UBC Botanical Garden website: ubcbotanicalgarden.org.

Current slideshow: All photos Daniel Mosquin, UBC Botanical Garden, Botany Photo of the Day

1. Nitobe Garden: The Seventy-Seven Log Bridge. Built to honour Dr. Inazo Nitobe, this traditional Shinto stroll garden and teahouse is an oasis of serenity and a photographers' dream.The banner at the top of the website shows another view of this garden.

2. Rhododendron ririei: There are roughly one thousand species of Rhododedron in the world. Of these, nearly six hundred can be found in China. Just over four hundred can only be found in China (endemics); Rhododendron ririei is one of the these, native only to the southwestern portion of Sichuan. It is one of the earliest flowering rhodos in British Columbia.

3. Rhododendron fortunei: Later blooming and fragrant, grows to 6'.

4. Paeonia rockii: Grows in the entrance courtyard of the Botanical Garden and is much loved by tiny tree frogs. It is a rare and beautiful plant which was introduced in the West from Gansu, China by the plant explorer Joseph Rock.

5. Magnolia sprengeri 'Eric Saville': Magnolia sprengeri seed was collected by Ernest ‘Chinese’ Wilson in 1901 in western Hubei in China. Seed distributed to Caerhays in Cornwall, resulted in a single individual which flowered and was named ‘Diva’. Magnolia sprengeri ‘Eric Savill’ is a small- to medium-sized tree. A ‘Diva’ seedling, it originated as a seedling in the Savill Garden at Windsor Great Park in England.

6. Kadsura interior: Kadsuras are strictly Asian and Kadsura interior is known only from SW Yunnan and NE Myanmar (Burma). We have only the one plant, derived from seed collected by Peter Wharton (past curator of the David C. Lam Asian Garden) from a venerable 25m specimen growing at 2200m on Qiqi Mountain, Gongshan County, Yunnan.

7. Meconopsis betonicifolia: Himalayan Blue Poppies are just one of the delights of our Asian Garden in early summer. They originate from Asia and are dotted around the garden.