Rhododendron “Capanulatum”
This is our last day to explore Vancouver, and what a beautiful day it was. Not only was the weather very, very nice but we also saw a beautiful garden filled with flowers. We took the bus south on Granville Street, then walked about a kilometre over to the VanDusen Botanical Garden this morning, and spent the rest of the day wandering along the paths.
It is a very nice garden, one of the nicest botanical gardens we’ve been in. Now in spring it was filled with blooming trees, shrubs, and many other flowering plants. The rhododendrons in particular where blooming profusely, and they have over 200 varieties in the garden. The camellias were almost finished, and the azaleas have not yet started to bloom. They also have many magnolias. One of the ponds had a duck with about 9 very tiny ducklings, still with some yellow down.
Spring flowers
There were narcissus and tulips, and many other kinds of spring flowers, far too many to show here in the blog so take a look at http://digipac.ca/pictures. All in all it was a very gorgeous way to spend the day.