Davidsonia

Varner, C. 2004. A Walk Through Time: The University of British Columbia Campus 1920s-2004. Davidsonia. 15(1):9-14

UBC was a busy place in the mid-1920s. With the construction of new buildings, landscaping was soon to follow. The first gardens to evolve were the pocket gardens on the north and south sides of the main Library. These
were designed by the University’s first Landscape Architect, Frank E. Buck (on the new campus from 1926 - 1949).

Not many herbaceous perennials or shrubs from the 1920s, 1930s or even the 1940s have survived. It is the trees that were planted in those decades that now embellish the campus with history.