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Festival of Lights starts tomorrow

December 8, 2005 by Andrea Bellamy Leave a Comment

Van Dusen Botanical Garden’s Festival of Lights runs December 9th through 31st from 5:00pm to 9:00pm (except Christmas Day). The Festival of Lights is a Vancouver tradition now in its 21st year. Over a million lights decorate the Garden’s 12 acres, and it’s really quite a magical scene. You can’t help but get into the […]

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International Garden Festival

December 6, 2005 by Andrea Bellamy Leave a Comment

The International Garden Festival recently announced the names of the designers invited to take part in the 2006 festival. The Festival, which has taken place on the site of Reford Gardens/Les Jardins de Métis in Quebec, asks landscape designers from Canada and around the world to create temporary gardens on-site. The Festival has become an […]

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Adventure: UBC Botanical Garden

September 4, 2005 by Andrea Bellamy Leave a Comment

One of Vancouver’s garden treasures is the UBC Botanical Garden, which makes for a fabulous day of adventure. Originally created as a research centre focused on the native flora of British Columbia, the mission of UBC Botanical Garden has broadened to include research, conservation, teaching and public display of temperate plants from around the world, […]

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