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British Columbia Native Garden

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The beauty and science of British Columbian flora

In four hectares (10 acres) of sloping coastal forest, the visitor has an opportunity to enjoy many of the native plants of British Columbia. Internationally popular UBC Botanical Garden Plant Introductions grace the entrance, including Penstemon 'Purple Haze', Vaccinium ovatum 'Thunderbird', and Arctostaphylos 'Vancouver Jade'.

Students, from pre-schoolers to post-graduates, are frequent visitors, investigating everything from taxonomy to biochemistry, or simply enjoying the frogs, insects and birds, which are part of the natural bounty. Along stone paths, or across an open field, edged with perennial borders, the visitor is once again embraced by the University of British Columbia Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research's global reach.

UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research also operates the British Columbia Flora web site.

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Interested in native plants? Join a native plant society:

Native Plant Society of BC

Washington Native Plant Society

The Golden Spruce

In 1997, a one-of-a-kind golden Sitka spruce that grew on the banks of the Yakoun River in British Columbia was cut down by a person who has since disappeared. Culturally important to the Haida, the act was devastating to the community.

Twenty years previously, UBC Botanical Garden's former director, Roy Taylor, took cuttings when the tree was on ground leased to a forest company. One of the cuttings is still alive in the Native Garden today.

Read more: Golden Spruce