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DOUGLAS Justice, associate director and curator of collections at the UBC Botanical Garden, shows a rhododendron whose leaves are indumented, or felted underside.
Giant rhodos a highlight of tour From page 13
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show me what he thinks will be interesting. So we walk immediately off the beaten path (read: bush expedition) into the middle of the forest and all I can see are giant rhodos with leaves bigger than a cowboy hat, 150-yearold grand fir and climbing vines growing way up into the trees. It really is another world in here and I can’t see or hear anyone but Justice. Then suddenly he stops and
says, “Do you smell that? It’s Katsura leaves on the ground.” I stop and realize that I have grown Katsura for years but never took the time to smell their leaves. We progress down a winding path through the middle of the forest and suddenly we enter a clearing with a huge, old Douglas fir that arches its way up into the sky. This tree is really massive, bigger than four or five metres in diameter at the base, probably 60 metres
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tall, with deep furrowed bark and it’s an awesome site standing there like a majestic sentinel in the forest. Before I can even get my camera out to photograph this giant, Justice heads off into the forest, waving me on behind him. We approach a grove of rhododendrons tucked under some giant cedar trees and Justice says, “These are Rhododendron kasangiae and last winter was the See Keep page 20
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