April 2021 Additions:​
Updated Gardener Walk Schedule
Updated Gardener Assignments with map

April 2021 Self-Guided Tour: An April Walk Through the Garden:
- enhanced version with photos    
- printable pdf


March 2021 Additions:​
Ash's Zoom Talk: "The Amateur and the Professional: the lives and legacies of Willmott and Jekyll"

Self-guided Tour Feb.-March 2021, VanDusen's Stately Stands of Trees:
- enhanced version with photos
- printable pdf

Zoom help (under Walks and Talks Schedule)

New Plant Profiles 

• Eryngium x zabelii 'Big Blue'
• Juglans cinerea
• Edgeworthia chrysantha ‘Gold Rush’
• Aucuba japonica 'Gold Dust'
• Pinus strobus
• ​Stewartia monadelpha

February 2021 Additions:​
New Plant Profiles 

• Eranthis hyemalis
• Eryngium yuccifolium

2021 PCR in .pdf format on Maps and PCR page


January 2021 Additions:​
New Plant Profiles 

• Sedum telephium 'Matrona'
• Physocarpus opulifolius 'Diabolo'
• Rhododendron smirnowii

• Rhododendron 'Lady Clementine Mitford'

• Rhododendron 'Nova Zembla'
• Rhododendron 'Arthur Bedford'

New 2021 Plant Collection Record on Maps and PCR page
New Plant Category: Witch Hazels ( (under Plant id by type/trees/deciduous)

 
December 2020 Additions:​
New Plant Profiles 

• Quercus phillyreoides
• Rosa 'Mme Plantier'
• Ficus carica
• Nerine bowdenii
• Cathaya argyrophylla
• Taxus brevifolia
• Abies procera ​

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November 2020 Additions:​
New Plant Profiles 

• Coprosma brunnea
• Rhododendron kiusianum
• Cedrus libani var stenocomae
• Picea omorika
• Tsuga mertensiana ‘Elizabeth’
• Pennisetum alopecuroides
• Prunus serrula
• Euonymus myrianthus
• Panicum virgatum
• Molinia caerulea
• Miscanthus sinensis
• Koeleria glauca
  
  

October 2020 Additions:
New Plant Category (under Plant id by type):

• Berries-Fruits-Nuts

New Plant Profiles 

• Zanthoxylum schinifolium
• Franklinia alatamaha

September 2020 Additions:
New Plant Profiles 

• Calluna vulgaris

August 2020 Additions:
New Plant Category (under Plant id by type/shrubs):

• Hydrangeas

New Plant Profiles 

• Emmenopterys henryi
• Tilia oliveri
• Idesia polycarpa
• Cotoneasterharrysmithii
• Melliodendron xylocarpum
• Datisca cannabina
• Rubus ursinus
• Rubus armeniacus

July 2020 Plant Collection Record (Accession List) in both .PDF and .XLSX formats (under the In The Garden button)


July 2020 Additions:
Self-Guided Tour July-August
New Plant Profiles:

• Carrierea calycina (Goat Horn Tree)
• Amelanchier canadensis

New Plant Category: Calycanthus (under Plant id by type/shrubs)

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June 2020 Additions:
Garden Stories Archive


May 2020 Additions:
Toronto Blog about VanDusen

New Plant Profiles:

• Crataegus x mordenensis 'Snowbird' 
• Trachycarpus fortunei (Windmill Palm)

New Plant Categories (under Plant id by type):

• Magnolias (added May 25)
• Medicinal Plants
• Native Plants
• Peonies (added May 25)
• Rhododendrons
• Roses 

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April 2020 Additions:​

• Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival online
• Art in the Garden (under the In The Garden button)
• Walks & Talks Schedule (under the Updates button)

New & updated plant profiles:  
​Added April 16:

• Echinacea purpurea 'White Swan'
• Rhododendron macrophyllum
• Camassia quamash
• ​Cyclamen repandum
• ​Araucaria auracana (Monkey Puzzle tree)​
• Magnolia stellata
• Garrya elliptica 'James Roof'
• Pieris japonica
• Erica carnea 'Beoley Pink'
• Eucalyptus coccifera
• Maytenus boaria

Added April 1:

• Cercidiphyllum japonicum 'Morioka Weeping' (Katsura)
• Meconopsis betonicifolia (check out the video about the Himalayan Blue Poppy)

March 2020 Additions:

• ​Alma VanDusen Garden (under the In The Garden button, "Gardens")
• February/March 2020 Self-Guided Tour (under the Updates button)

February 2020 Additions:

• Gardener Assignments (under the In The Garden button)

    New & updated plant profiles:  

• Dicksonia antarctica    
• Mespilus germanica

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December 2019 Additions: 

• Bloedel: What's That Bird Quizzes 1-4
• ​Map and Collection Lists (under the In The Garden button)
• Latest Plant Collection Record and Invasive Species in the Garden Lists (under the In The Garden button)
• 2019 Curator's Plant Collection Report (under the In The Garden button)