Monday, February 7, 2011

Marie Selby Botanical Gardens

Here are pictures taken Jan. 19, 2011 during a glorious Sarasota, Florida respite from the New England winter:
Frank, Mom and Dad in the parking lot.

Buddha and bromeliads.

Pre-Columbian or Mayan (?) statue.

Bonsai

Orchid

Inside the orchid house: leaves and textures.

Inside the orchid house.

Inside the orchid house: leaves and textures.

Orchids

Orchids

Fragrant hoja in the orchid house.

Inside the orchid house.


Mom inside the orchid house.



Detail of leaves inside the orchid house.

Lily in the orchid house


Another pre-Columbian/Mayan image from inside the orchid house.


Orchid

Orchid

Orchid

Orchid

Bromeliad



Orchid

Fern

Peperomia


Inside the orchid house

Double-lobed leaf

Orchid

Frank in the orchid house

Orchid


Ferns and bromeliads

Mom, Dad and Frank at the Koi Pond


Koi Pond

Dad and Mom at lunch


Bamboo Garden

Tree trunk

"Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow": flowers of three different hues on the same shrub.

In the creek a cormorant finds lunch (a catfish).

Kalanchoes in the succulent garden

Dad looking out at Sarasota Bay

Sarasota Bay

Little Blue Heron in Sarasota Bay

Sarasota Bay looking through the mangroves

A palm

Example of a rooftop garden (Mom with walker on the left)

Bananas

Fragrant Garden (sweet alyssum, thymes, salvias, and others)

Looking toward the tea house, bromeliads in foreground

Sarasota Bay and palms

Dad pets the sacred cow garden ornament at the end of our visit.

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