May 2025 Additions:
Self-guided Tour: Carolinian Forest


April 2025 Additions:

• Camellia x williamsii 'Freedom Bell'

​Curator Report on 2025 projects


March 2025 Additions:

• Picea brachtyla
• Helleborus foetidus
• Cephalotaxus fortunei

​Self-Guided Tour, Feb. March 2024: Adopt-A-Tree


February 2025 Additions:

• Rudbeckia 'Cherry Brandy
• Thuja plicata 'Filiformis'
• Acer stachyophyllum subsp. betulifolium

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January 2025 Additions:

• Chelonopsis yagiharana
• Aralia 'Sun King'
• ​Kalmia latifolia
• Eremurus x isabellinus 'Cleopatra'

December 2024 Additions:

• Acer Palmatum 'Beni-otake'​
• Acorus gramineus ‘Variegatus’

November 2024 Additions:

• Dioscorea japonica​​
• Update to profile Synthyris missurica
• Pseudolarix amabilis
• Acer palmatum
• Acer palmatum 'Twombly's Red Sentinel'

Self-Guided Tour for Winter 2024: A Winter Meander in the Sino Himalayan
Additional Resources for the Nov. 14, 2024 talk on "Coexisting with Wildfire"


October 2024 Additions:

• Aesculus glabra var. arguta​​
• Amaranthus cruentus ‘Hot Biscuits’

Gardener Walk with Andrew


September 2024 Additions:

• Echinacea purpurea 'Fragrant Angel'
• Chamaecyparis obtusa ‘Crippsii'
• Sedum 'Class Act'
• Perovskia atriplicifolia

Self-Guided Tour for Fall: Edibles in the Garden 
Gardener Walk with Lisa:


August 2024 Additions:

• Macleaya cordata
• Revised profile of  Strix varia  (barred owls)
• Echinacea purpurea ‘Rubinstern’
• Epipactis helleborine

​Gardener Walk with Shaun

In the News: Wonderful Wollemi Pines 



​July 2024 Additions:

• Podophyllum pleianthum
• Rosa 'Gloire de Guilan'
• ​Rosa 'Emily Carr'
• Rosa 'Felix Leclerc'
• ​Salix lanata
• ​Melianthus major

​Gardener Walk with JP


June 2024 Additions:

• Magnolia grandiflora 'Victoria'
• Comptonia peregrina
• Pinus sylvestris 'Watereri'
• Meconopsis genus & Meconopsis x sheldonii
• Meconopsis x sheldonii 'Lingholm'
• Lilium formosanum var. pricei
• Cardiocrinum giganteum

Basics of bionomial nomenclature
6/2024 Plant Collection Record on 'Maps and PCR' page
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May 2024 Additions:

• Chamaecyparis obtusa​​

Gardener Walk with Erin - May 20, 2024


April 2024 Additions:

• Picea chihuahuana
• Cornus sanguinea 'Midwinter Fire'

2024 Gardeners' Walk Schedule
Self-Guided Tour: Nature and Art
In the News: Magnolias in the Wild

In the News:

• Forest Bathing Pilot Project in Vancouver Parks

March 2024 Additions:

• Synthyris missurica
• Pinus thunbergii​
• Rhododendron strigillosum

In the news:  World's earliest fossilized forest
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February 2024 Additions:​

• Styrax obassia
• Styrax americanus

Self-Guided Tour for February-March: Plants, Lakes & Bridges
Sam's Continuing Ed Talk on 'Living Fossils
Updated Gardener Staff & Assignments


​January 2024 Additions:

• Picea rubens​
• Lindera erythrocarpa

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Continuing Education 2024

November 2023 Additions:

• Acer palmatum 'Aka-shime-no-uchi'
• ​Plectranthus 'Mt. Carbine'
• Corylopsis glabrescens 'Longwood Chimes'
• Aesculus x bushii
• Clethra alnifolia & Clethra alnifolia 'Ruby Spice'​

October 2023 Additions:

• Echinacea purpurea 'Green Twister'
• Asclepias speciosa
• Origanum 'Kent Beauty'
• Tulbaghia violacea​
• Aloysia citrodora

September 2023 Additions:

• Francoa sonchifolia
• Spigelia marilandica 'Little Redhead'
• Vitex agnus-castus
• Diphylleia cymosa
• Scilla mischtschenkoana 'Tubergeniana'
• Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra 'Bleeding Hearts'
• Pinus muricata
• Alnus hirsuta var. siberica
• Ugni molinae
• ​Vaccinium parvifolium

Updated Plant Collection Records
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Walk in the Garden with David G.
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August 2023 Additions:

• Amelanchier ainifolia
• Rosa CITRUS SPLASH = Jaczorba
• Hemerocallis 'Strutter's Ball' & 'Purple de Oro'

• Cercis siliquastrum
• Lilium 'Tabledance'
• Heliopsis helianthoides 'Sunstruck'

Gardener's Walk with Brent


July 2023 Additions:

• Aronia melanocarpa
• Cortaderia selloana
• Allium siculum
• Tithonia rotundifolia
• Elaeagnus commutata

Notes from Acting Superintendent Garden Walk, June 30


June 2023 Additions:

• Quercus acuta
• Saxifraga fortunei
• ​Magnolia sargentiana var. robusta
• Narcissus 'Tete-a-Tete'
• Narcissus 'Tete Bouclé' 
• Narcissus poeticus var. recurvus
• Camellia japonica ‘Hagoromo’
• Salix lapponum
• Tropaeolum polyphyllum
• Allium 'Mount Everest'
• Acer palmatum ‘Nuresagi’
• Sedum spathulifolium​
• Carpinus japonica
• ​Prunus mume
• ​Erythronium 'Kondo'

​Curator Update
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Conifer Connect 

2023 Vegetable Garden Notes/Signage/Plant Lists
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April 2023 Additions:

• Rhododendron pocophorum
• Rhododendron coeloneuron
• Narcissus 'Thalia'
• Narcissis 'Rip van Winkle'

How to Find Plants in the Garden 
(fyi link lives under the drop-down menu 'In the Garden'/Maps and Collection Lists')

Extra Credit - Items in the News about the Plant World (permanent link is under 'Updates')

Internet Links Useful for Guides

Mexican Plants at VanDusen Guide Education Notes

Self-Guided Tour: Livingstone and Heron Lakes


​March 2023 Additions:

• Taxus baccata 'Repandens'
• Rhododendron Tessa Group
• Rhododendron pachysanthum
•  Pinus mugo var. pumilio 
• Picea mariana
• Acer circinatum -  'JFS-Purple'        'Monroe'         'Pacific Fire'
• Spirea thunbergii
• Chamaecyparis pisifera
• Halesia monticola
• Trochodendron aralioides

March 2023 Guide Education Recording: Japanese Beetles

Updated Plant Collection Record


February 2023 Additions:

• Fraxinus griffithii
• Juniperus phoenicia
• Hamamelis 'Brevipetala'
• Acer glabrum
• Cryptomeria japonica 'Spiralis'
• Tsuga mertensiana

Self-guided Tour: A Tribute to Trees


January 2023 Additions:

• Physostegia virginiana 'Miss Manners'
• Cotinus coggygria 'Young Lady'
• Pinus contorta
• Juniperus communis 'Hornibrookii'

Self-Guided Tour: Trees of VanDusen

December 2022 Additions:  

• ​Austrocedrus chilensis
• Phygelius (Cape Fuschia)
• Cryptomeria japonica   Arauccarioides Group   'Vilmoriniana'    'Tansu'   'Pygmaea'​   'Sekkan-sugi'

VanDusen 2022 Plant Collections Annual Report  &  Updated Downloadable Garden Map


November 2022 Additions:  
Self-Guided Tour: Savouring the Seasons

New Categories: History of the Garden & Backyard Bird Garden
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New plant profiles:

• Tagetes minuta
• Maackia chinensis
• Sassafras albidum​
• Echinacea purpurea 'Green Jewel'
• Nothofagus dombeyi
• Cornus kousa var. chinensis
• Pseudotsuga menziesii 'Pendula'

Nov. 10, 2022:  From Hawaii’s Lyon Arboretum to VanDusen Botanical Garden: Native plants feed native insects. Why it's important and what can we do. Speaker: John Shinnick, Volunteer seed collector and guide
​GMT20221110-180058_Recording_2240x1260.mp4


October 2022 Additions:  
New plant profiles:

• Lagerstroemia ​
• Physocarpus capitatas
• Solanum aviculare
• Heptacodium miconioides
• Ptilotus exaltatus 'Joey'
• Tsuga canadensis ‘Gentsch White’

Curator's Update: Irrigation, Heather Garden, Teaching Garden. Drought, Shedding Leaves

October 13, 2022: - Recording Observations with iNaturalist Canada: 

• Video: Guide Education Meeting October 2022.mp4

September 2022 Additions:  
September 8, 2022 Education Talk - Gillian Drake, Kitchen Botany 
Video link: ​GMT20220908-170235_Recording_1920x1080.mp4

New plant profiles:

• Thalictrum ichangense ‘Evening Star’
• Bupleurum fruticosum
• ​Taxus cuspidata ‘Aurescens’
• Shepherdia canadensis

August 2022 Additions:  
New plant profiles:

• Cotinus coggygria 'Young Lady'
• Rhododendron 'Cotton Candy'
• Ilex zhejiangensis
• Staphylea holocarpa
• Populus wilsonii
• Rhododendron (Obtusum Group) 'Kuruma-gaeshi'
• Asimina triloba (Pawpaw Tree)

Story of Cornus 'Eddies' White Wonder'
Story of Garry Oak planted in 2009 by HRH Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall


July 2022 Additions:  
New plant profiles:

• Prunus 'Shirotae'

• Rhododendron 'Lem's Cameo'​
• Jeffersonia diphylla
• Amorpha fruticosa
• Lupinus polyphyllus
• Broussonetia kazinoki
• Merwilla plumbea
• Cornus x rutgersensis [AURORA] = 'Rutban'
• Holodiscus discolor
• Allium cristophii
• Baptisia australis
• Quercus ilex
• Allium schubertii
• Allium moly
• Oxalis adenophylla
• Impatiens omeiana
• Stewartia rostrata
• Astilbe spp.
• ​Alcea rosea
• ​Allium cernuum

June 2022 Virtual Walk with Laura: Behind the Scenes of the Garden

July-August 2022 Self-Guided Tour: A Summer Stroll

List of Bed Numbers with Locations


​June 2022 Additions:  
New plant profiles:

• Acer velutinum
• Prunus (Sato-Zakura Group) 'Kanzan'
• Amsonia tabernaemontana
• Rhododendron arboreum
• Rhododendron bureauvii
• Rhododendron schlippenbachii
• Rhododendron 'Old Port'
• ​Primula sieboldii
• Prunus padus 'Wateri'
• Sophora microphylla

May 2022 Additions:  
New plant profiles

• Trillium ovatum
• Tulipa clusiana
• Helleborus x hybridus 'Berry Swirl' (Winter Jewel Series)
• Achlys triphylla
• Echinacea cultivars
• Camassia leichtlinii
• Iris 'Katharine Hodgkin'
• Dodecatheon hendersonii​

May 2022 Walk with Andrew: North Areas of the Garden
- enhanced version with photos
- printable pdf

May-June 2022 Self-Guided Tour: April Showers Bring Spring Flowers
- enhanced version with photos
- printable pdf

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April 2022 Additions: 

• Updated Plant Collection Record
• Guide Education Videos on Butterflies and Insects 

April 2022 Self-Guided Tour: VanDusen's Giants
- enhanced version with photos
- printable pdf

New plant profiles

• Thlaspi macrophyllum
• Acer monspessulanum
• Eomecon chionantha
• Fothergilla major
• Pinus parviflora & P. parviflora f. glauca
• Hacquetia epipactis
• Paxistima myrsinites​
• Primula 'Wanda'
• Camellia japonica subsp. rusticana​
• Salix fargesii
• Salix nakamurana var. yezoalpina
• Prunus 'Snow Goose'
• Prunus subhirtella var. pendula 'Snofozam' Snow Fountains
• Trachystemon orientalis
• Campanula takesimana
• Daphne mezereum
• Dactylorhiza foliosa
• Abeliophyllum distichum

March 2022 Additions:  
New plant profiles

• Nothofagus antarctica​
• Salix boydii
• +Laburnocytisus 'Adamii'
• Abies veitchii
• Veronica 'Great Orme'
• Rhodendron Walloper Group
• Erica x darleyensis 'Kramer's Rote'
• Calluna vulgaris 'Zoe'
• Choisya x dewitteana ‘Aztec Pearl’

Stone Garden

Curator Updates
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February 2022 Additions:​
New Plant Profiles

• Phellodendron amurense
• Rosa 'Benjamin Britten'
• Hydrangea macrophylla 'Merritt's Supreme'
• Kirengeshoma palmata
• Viburnum tinus 'Spring Bouquet'
• Arum italicum
• Begonia grandis 'Heron's Pirouette'
• Persicaria virginiana ‘Painter’s Palette'
• Caleocedrus decurrens
• Chelone obliqua
• Chelone lyonii

February-March 2022 Self-Guided Tour: An Historical Walk around the Garden
- enhanced version with photos
- printable pdf


January 2022 Additions:​
New Plant Profiles

• Tsuga diversifolia
• Senecio cristobalensis
• Styrax japonicus​