One of my favourite sites — and places — is the UBC (University of British Columbia) Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant research. Now I can visit every day and see what’s blooming thanks to Daniel Mosquin’s beautiful macro photography at the site’s Botany Photo of the Day.
This one’s neat: A tulip species, as it would have been found in the wild way back before the Dutch discovered and went crazy over them. Their enthusiasm triggered an economic boom/bust cycle that made the “dot com” and gold rush days seem sedate by comparison.
POLLENATRIX 