Guide Weekly Update #18: July 28 to August 3, 2019 Brought to you by Ashley Lambert-Maberly (ashley..m@ube.ca), award-winning © Sunday walking 01 August Thursday: Gardener Walk 10:00am: Dave wil be taking you around the Perennials Garden and the Heather Garden, This willbe the final walk of the season as due to staffing changes September has been cancelled. Worth Knowing: > if anyone asks, our official position with regards to climbing on structures in the garden (including chairs and sculptures) is that guests should not do so. The chairs can be sat on, but not climbed on, so small children may need to be helped into place. D> The area around the ground bees’ nest under the bench by Livingstone Lake h: to encourage the bees (who apparently don’t lke gravel) to relocate to somewhere less high-traffic. en spread with gravel in an effort even cu me AC Ciao nia Peat aane 10:00am - 4:00pm, pick-up and drop-off from VanDusen Parking Lot eee eee ee D> In the Perennial Garden the Goldenrod (Solidago, probably Solidago rigida) is lush and teeming with bees. Its yet another member of the huge Aster family, and gets a bad reputation for causing hayfever: in fact, it’s pollen is too heavy and sticky to be blown far (ragweed blooming at the same time is the likely culprit). > Below ita little Cinquefoil cultivar (Potentilla ‘William Rollison’). Potentilla is in the rose family, and a close cousin of Alchemilla and Fragraria; its common name means five-leaved. P It's bottlebrush season! On the path from plaza to Winter Walk, our Bottlebrush Buckeye (Aesculus parviflora) is blooming, a large shrub that grows twice as wide as it’s tall. P Only 15 paces away the delicate Bottlebrush Grass (Hystrix patula, also known as Elymus hystrix) is also flowering on both sides of the path. Hystrix can also refer to a genus of porcupine, and the plant’s name derives from its resemblance to quill. Seren ee nn een ‘to https://tinyurl.com/vandusenphot Pee at et aes