Monday, February 16, 2009

Tour of the Botanical Gardens

They say a picture is worth a thousand words so here is our thousand words for the day



















These are pictures from our visit to the Desert Botanical Garden nestled amid the buttes of Papago Park in Phoenix. The day we visited they were having a special exhibit by Dale Chihuly a well known artist of handblown glass.
























The Garden sits on 145 acres and has more than 50,000 plants on display. The garden has five thematic trails that illustrate topics such as conservation, desert living, plants and people of the Sonoran Desert, and desert wildflowers.

1 comment:

  1. wow ! what a place. did you see any "century plants" ??? at the Edmonton Muttart one year, the century plant was blooming and you could literally watch the flower spire grow by the minute.

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