Final installment in my pictures from DC (I am so behind posting these…) There was really neat orchid exhibit at the National Botanical Gardens while we were down there. The Garden is next to the Capital, and I highly recommend visiting it. There’s an outdoor garden, and a glassed in house, that has a number
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You see these pictures? Several months ago, when we booked our long weekend in Washington, DC, based on prior experience, we fully expected that we’d be awash in cherry blossoms when we got there. (Heck, the organizers of the 100th anniversary festival expected the same.) But, they got the same heat wave we got, so
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Our second stop on Saturday was the Thuya Garden, which is run by the same land preserve as the Azalea Garden. Unlike the Azalea Garden, it’s still early in the season, so while there were some blooms, it was obvious that the best is yet to come. Still, it’s a beautifully laid out garden, and
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I’m very behind recapping the rest of the trip to AZ, so here’s the rest, in short order. That Monday, we headed down toward Tucson, and checked out Biosphere 2. It’s an incredibly interesting place to visit, and I have tons of pictures, but it really is one of those places that you’re better of
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The morning of my birthday (the 22nd), we headed over to the Desert Botanical Garden, which we’re able to access for free, because we’re members of our local botanical garden. (Definite perk of that membership.) It’s the late part of their wildflower season in April, though it apparently wasn’t a great wildflower year, because they
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The gardens at the Morikami Japanese Garden and Museum were definitely the highlight of my trip to Florida. It’s an absolutely gorgeously done garden, with a progression of well labelled styles. We didn’t explore the main museum building (other than their awesome gift shop), but the Yamato-san (the original museum building) has a great exhibit
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We’re into full on winter wonderland mode here, which means I’m pretty much holed up in the house, not really going anywhere interesting, hence the lack of anything other than reading and knitting posts. Here is the best I can manage to remedy that. We’ve acquired a new neighbor. One of the local red tailed
It was so lovely to see all the hot weather flowers. I’ve seen those around enough in some of my other trips to be a little familiar with them, but this trip was a little different because of the cactus. I’ve never been in a climate where there are so many different kinds of cactus
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A variety of Arizona wildflowers, mostly from the Desert Botanical Garden. My personal favorite was the chocolate flower, which smells exactly like chocolate, and you can smell from yards away. If it weren’t wildly out of its growing zone, I’d be filling my garden with it. 2023 Note: It’s not wildly out of my gardening
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We went to AZ mainly to hang out with friends, but we did find a few hours to sneak off and do some touristy things. The Desert Botanical Garden is part of the same organization as our Botanical Garden here in Maine, and since we’re members here, we were able to get in for free.
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