Saturday, May 9, 2009

Chicago Botanical Gardens

Pretty blue Anemone

Pink Anemone

The color and details are really amazing!


Who doesn't love a flowering tree?



Bleding Hearts, a garden favorite!

Even though this is a Bonsai it still looks likea cool place for a picnic!


Here too!


More blossoming trees!


...and more...


..and more!


Even the moss on the rock walls was blossoming!


The Foregt-Me-Nots were gorgeous.


A lovely bubbly fountain.


A BIG fountain and a rainbow!

Another of my favorites, the Iceland Poppy. I love how wrinkled like crepe paper they look when they first open up - so delicate!

...and they come in a beautiful variety of colors, or absence of color.


The bridge to the Japanese gardens.


The Japanese gardens...so zen and tranquil!


Lily Tulips.

Gorgeous flowering Magnolia tree.

Crown Imperial Lily


A bright red Ranuncula.


One of many lovely flower pots!


Robin bob bob bobbin along!


Siberian Iris.


Sweet stainless steel sculpture in the gardens and I managed not to get myself in the picture.


One of literally half a million tulips.

Such fabulous colors!



Tulips galore!



Not sure what these are but they were really pretty.

Some kind of small yellow-orange flower that struck my fancy.

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