More pics from the UBC Botanical Gardens'

My visit in April, 2005:

Now, this is true colour. I saw a bouquet of artificially coloured flowers delivered to someone at work the other day, a blue that was horrible! I re-learned recently, from an expert fibre artist who often uses natural materials to dye her fibres, that naturally dyed colours are always easy to combine or match: any colour goes with any colour, as long as the dyes are from plant/natural materials. Matching artificially/commercially dyed fibres is much more challenging.

How's that for an opinionated rant?