UBC Botanical Garden & Nitobe Memorial Garden
Serious plant lovers will love the University of British Columbia. The prime attraction on campus, besides the must-see Museum of Anthropology, is the 44-hectare (110-acre) UBC Botanical Garden, home to more than 8,000 species of trees, shrubs, and flowers grouped into a BC native garden, a physic (or medicinal) garden, a food garden, and several others. (Spring, when the flowering trees bloom, is the best time to visit.) Energetic kids will love the Greenheart Canopy Walkway, a series of platforms suspended on wires at up to 18m (57 ft.) high, which move in waves as you walk along them. Nearby is the Nitobe Memorial Garden, a beautiful traditional Japanese garden considered among the top-five Japanese gardens in North America and one of the most authentic. Cherry blossoms peak in April and May, the irises bloom in June, and autumn brings colorful leaf displays.
Serious plant lovers will love the University of British Columbia. The prime attraction on campus, besides the must-see Museum of Anthropology, is the 44-hectare (110-acre) UBC Botanical Garden, home to more than 8,000 species of trees, shrubs, and flowers grouped into a BC native garden, a physic (or medicinal) garden, a food garden, and several others. (Spring, when the flowering trees bloom, is the best time to visit.) Energetic kids will love the Greenheart Canopy Walkway, a series of platforms suspended on wires at up to 18m (57 ft.) high, which move in waves as you walk along them. Nearby is the Nitobe Memorial Garden, a beautiful traditional Japanese garden considered among the top-five Japanese gardens in North America and one of the most authentic. Cherry blossoms peak in April and May, the irises bloom in June, and autumn brings colorful leaf displays.
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