Summer in the Botanic Garden
It’s really, really hard to pick a single image from the 125 pictures I took today in the South Coast Botanic Garden on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. I’ll show this collage of sixteen images, but none of them do justice to actually being in the garden.
I’ll post a couple of full-sized images later this week - they were all very beautiful.
Cap’n Bob & the Damsel » Whirligig said,
June 28, 2007 @ 08:33:37 PDT
[…] Whirligig is the nickname given to this Trailing African Daisy (osteospermum fruticosum). I snapped this picture last week at the Botanic Garden. […]
Cap’n Bob & the Damsel » Artichoke Flower said,
June 29, 2007 @ 17:11:49 PDT
[…] Did you ever wonder what would happen if they didn’t pick artichokes for the produce department? That question was answered for us last weekend when we visited the Botanic Garden. If they are left on the stalks they produce these giant purple flowers. […]
Cap’n Bob & the Damsel » Sunflower Eclipse said,
July 7, 2007 @ 14:08:50 PDT
[…] A couple of weeks ago when we visited the Botanic Garden, Damsel took this picture of a sunflower backlit by the sun. Sort of an eclipse of the sun by a sunflower. […]