GPOD on the Road: VanDusen Botanical Garden

Incredible early flower displays

Cherry Ong is taking us along to a see other give bloomers atVanDusen Botanical Gardenin Vancouver , British Columbia , on a perfectly sunny spring twenty-four hour period .

Nowthatis a happy clod of crocus . I retrieve it might beCrocusancyrensis‘Golden Bunch ’ ( Zones 4–8 ) , but I ’m not sure .

Big drifts of crocuses , mostlyCrocus tommasinianus(Zones 4–8 ) it looks like , are taking over assnowdrops(Galanthus , Zones 3–8 ) finish up .

Sweeps of wood anemone are still in prime along the Rhododendron Garden Path .

Crocus tommasinianus‘Ruby Giant ’ ( zona 4–8 ) is have a go at it for its vigor and relative squirrel impedance . It has extra - big , extra - showy flowers and bloom with abandon .

Callunavulgaris‘Zoe ’ ( Zones 4–8 ) is putting on a ardent show in the Heather Garden . That acute red color is from the foliage , not the flowers . A yellow - greenness in the summer , it redden this ruby color in the winter month .

Stewartiamonodelpha(Zones 6–8 ) has incredible bark . Cherry say that she has not bury this tree since her first sojourn and always looks for it in the garden .

More gorgeous crocuses open and bear witness off .

The moss-grown setting show off these crocus beautifully , and it wo n’t postulate to be mow like a lawn does . This will allow the crocus leaf to mature of course and salt away up free energy for next twelvemonth ’s efflorescence .

Cherry says she come specifically to see these bowl of floatinghellebore(Helleborushybrids , Zones 4 – 9 ) blush because she loves hellebore so much !

Because hellebore blooms advert down , displaying them this way set aside you to really revalue all their beauty and diversity .

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