UBC Botanical Garden

Just one thing I was super disappointed about: I've mentioned Kirengeshoma koreana before and how it's a really cool endemic of South Korea...well at the garden there was a little metal tag on a pole sticking out of the ground that said "Kirengeshoma koreana" and I looked for it everywhere but it was nowhere. UBC, you need to take better care of your plants because your Wollemia also died. Also, I saw a Hutton's Vireo for the first time (and I recorded it and it's not a Ruby Crowned Kinglet this time!) I also saw a Northern Flicker and heard some drumming from a woodpecker. Also recorded a Winter Wren song, so I may have some recordings to post when I get back to my pc if I'm not too lazy.

Rubus spectabilis

Song Sparrow

Ribes sanguineum

or, Red flowering Currant

Lonicera sp.

Polystichum polyblepharum

Spider on a Rhododendron

Cotoneaster sp. similar to Cotoneaster wilsonii which is endemic to Ulleungdo

there were just Rhododendrons everywhere

interesting mutations on Camellia japonica leaves

"There's no place like home, there's no place like home" but seriously it was basically a Rhodie garden with a few other plants sprinkled in

Petasites japonicus...the leaves are awesome and huge

Flowers of Petasites

Sorbus commixta

Rhododendron yedoense, endemic to Ulleungdo, apparently found rarely in the wild but is in a botanical garden in Canada

R. yedoense buds

Aucuba japonica