Monday, September 27, 2010

Atlanta Botanical Gardens

Lobby in the visitors center of the Botanical Gardens


Chihuly Blown Glass Chandelier

Chandelier is patterned after Carnivorous Pitcher Plants



Interesting chairs on the Canopy Walk

Dwight & the Frog

Cascades Garden


Flower Bridge



Notice the Yellow Butterfly in the following 6 pictures:






Children's Garden

Butterfly Gate


Dwight Reading with Frogs

Venus Flytraps
















Notice the huge tadpoles of the bullfrogs:



Secret Bower


Lichen



Leaves felt like velvet:










Glass Blown Floating Flowers:



Glass Blown Pumpkins:

White Pumpkins:

A Bountiful Harvest of Glass Blown Pumpkins:



Orchid Center with many varieties of orchids:






















Carnivorous Plants:



High Elevation House Carnivorous Plants:


Carnivorouos Pitcher Plants of Georgia Bogs:

Unique Plants:



Colorful Poison Frogs:


These aerial roots look like the tree from Avatar:

The roots look pink:




Moss:


Banana Tree:


Unique Leaves:

High Elevation House (Our Favorite--perfect cool temperature):














The glass blown pumpkins in the edible garden at night:








Chihuly Glass on Fountain:




2 comments:

Anonymous said...

looks so cool!
Ruth

Jenny said...

Beautiful photos, Mary! I haven't visited your blog in a long while! Hope y'all are doing well!