Click on images below to enlarge:
|
 |
VanDusen Botanical Garden
|
|
|
|
|
The entrance to VanDusen
Botanical Garden.
| An excellent photo of, according to my notes, a purple split
corona daffodil (though in retrospect it doesn't look like a daffodil to
me), complete with a bee at top.
| Spiky plants.
| A blueblossom.
|
 |
|
|
|
|
Livingstone Lake and its fountain.
| The opposite perspective of the previously photographed lake.
| More greenery.
| One shaded path.
|
 |
|
|
|
|
A winding path.
| The bamboo grove, I believe.
| A neat path over Cypress Pond. Excellent for the lively greens.
| Five ducks in a different pond.
|
 |
|
|
|
|
Three ducks in close proximity.
| An excellent shot of a duck. Look at the feathers!
| Ditto.
| Ditto.
|
 |
|
|
|
|
What a cool, entangled tree!
| Flowers. As usual, I can't recognize them. According to my notes, they
might be "washington stilbe."
| More flowers. If, for any of these unlabeled flowers, you can
tell me their names, please do so.
| Yet another flower.
|
 |
|
|
|
|
Ditto. It's neat seeing flecks of white covering the stems.
(This is more visible in the full-sized image.)
| A snake-branch spruce.
| What awesome looking plants! Excellent.
| A weeping giant sequoia.
|
 |
|
|
|
|
A peach rose.
| A red rose.
| The formal rose garden and its sundial.
| An orthogonal perspective of the formal rose garden.
|
 |
|
|
|
|
A lovely path behind the formal rose garden.
| A series of small waterfalls.
| An excellent shot of perennials.
| A 360-degree panoramic movie of the perennials.
|
 |
|
|
|
|
A flower.
| Along comes a bee (bottom-left). In this and the later pictures,
it's easier to see it in the full-sized image.
| An excellent shot of the bee and the flower.
| Ditto.
|
 |
|
|
|
|
Ditto.
| The bee's really checking it out well.
| Another bee decides this bee has the right idea.
| Another flower of the same type, though sadly bee-less. This picture
gets an excellent only because the flower's center reminds me of a
cupcake.
|