The Photos on these pages are all from the UBC Botanical Garden "Botany Photo of the Day" unless otherwise labelled. Click on each of the headings for more information about any of the Gardens.

The Nitobe Memorial Japanese Garden


The David C. Lam Asian Garden

The entrance to the Asian Garden features a pond area. From the boardwalk you can see the Ginko tree and in the distance, some of the magnificent magnolias in the collection.

From Tibet, Japan, China, Korea, Manchuria and other regions, some of the most ancient flowering plants, the magnolia, are gathered together in the greatest number on the continent. Here also is one of the continent's largest collection of rhododendrons. Paper-bark, snake-bark and many other examples of Asian maples add vibrant colour, shape and texture. For more information go to Asian Garden














                                                                                          
Greenheart Canopy Walkway 

More than 17.5 meters above the ground, high in the forest canopy of the Asian Garden, the Canopy Walkway allows visitors a unique view of the trees, mosses, ferns, birds and insects. Tours take place hourly throughout the year.


The Food Garden
A favourite classroom for local schools, the Food Garden provides hands-on learning for horticultural students and researchers. Salad leaves, beans and peas, tomatoes, herbs and fruit are just a few of the many varieties of food harvested each week by the FOGS for distribution to local food banks. Due to inclement weather, the last harvest was November 19th, 2008. Now we have to wait for the direct seeding in early March of peas, radishes, arugula, broad beans, spinach and oriental greens (mustard and pac choi) and rhubarb. 

The Physic Garden

Within beautiful circular paths are the traditional medicinal herbs and flowers from England's Medieval, Tudor and Elizabethan periods.


The Alpine Garden

One of the premier alpine gardens in North America

University of British Columbia Botanical Garden visitors have the rare opportunity to roam from the Andes to coastal Morocco, the Canary Islands, or the crossroads of Asia Minor, in the E.H. Lohbrunner Alpine Garden. Of interest to all visitors to the one hectare (two-and-a-half acres) site is the feature of plants groupings in areas of geographic origin.

The Native Garden
In four hectares (10 acres) of sloping coastal forest, the visitor has an opportunity to enjoy many of the native plants of British Columbia.


The Carolinian Forest

Other Gardens

The Wollemi Pine      The Golden Spruce