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This garden, at the University of British Columbia, honours Inazo Nitobe (1862-1933) whose goal was "to become a bridge across the Pacific." Among many other memorials to him is his portrait on the 5000 yen note.
Considered to be the best traditional, authentic Japanese Tea and Stroll Garden in North America and among the top five Japanese gardens outside Japan, the Nitobe Garden includes a rare authentic Tea Garden with a ceremonial Tea House.
Each tree, stone and shrub has been deliberately placed and is carefully maintained to reflect an idealized conception and symbolic representation of nature. There is harmony among natural forms - waterfalls, rivers, forests, islands and seas - and a balance of masculine and feminine forces traditionally attributed to natural elements.
Realizing that many native trees and shrubs could be trained and pruned in typical Japanese fashion, the garden's creators incorporated them as unique features. Some maple and cherry trees and most of the azaleas and iris were brought from Japan.
En-route from Corpus Christi to New Orleans, the UBC Boston is passing through the Corpus Christi Ship Channel. The Pilot Boat stationed in Port Aransas is at the stern.
IMO: 9152478
Name: UBC BOSTON
MMSI: 212389000
Type: BULK CARRIER
Gross Tonnage: 14661 t
Summer DWT: 23544 t
Build: 1997
Flag: CYPRUS
Home port: LIMASSOL
I just wanted to take more sunset photos, for the experience. This viewpoint from UBC at the end of Wesbrook Crescent is marvelous.
Photo ID: 80411 UBC Cork
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One of the benefits of where I live is the ability to get into a rain forest in a very short time. A forest very close by and the chances of seeing people is slim to none. All within half an hour of home. This stream is in the University of British Columbia Research Forest just north of where I live.
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UBC Botanical Garden is well known for its collection of lianas (woody climbers), a growth form, more often associated with tropical forests.
Lianas are vigorous, shade tolerant, climbing species that start as seedlings on the forest floor. Many eventually surmount the surrounding vegetation, smothering or strangling individual plants in the process. Once exposed to full sunlight at the top of the canopy, lianas often flower and fruit prolifically. In the David C. Lam Asian Garden, the more vigorous climbers such as Actinidia (kiwi fruit), Vitis (grape), Wisteria and Hedera (ivy) are tolerated as long as they are not a threat to the host tree's health or liable to become weedy.