Wednesday, March 22, 2017

New Orleans Botantical Garden: Flower Portraits

 Here are a few of my favorite closeup pictures from my trip to the New Orleans Botanical Garden.
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These flowers came already in a bouquet

Hummers love these wild cannas





This was my favorite view - looking down a long trumpet flower




White from red was pretty amazing

Mysterious orchid

Painted with a tiny brush

Plumbago - works as a shrub, hedge or vines up a trellis - and
the blue is a great counterpoint to most other colors

Nasturtium is a winter/early spring flower here

Roses were coming into full bloom

Don't know this flower but loved the composition it made

The heat was making the tulips blow which is when I love them best

Iris were just getting started



Family portrait

What a lovely fringe



The beginning of a very big fern

Happy feet - these feel like little dancers to me

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All ready for hummers - which are passing through now




I think of these as summer flowers even down here

Happy blues

And summer is on its way

This blog will come out a few days after Spring officially starts.  Hope spring has arrived where you live. We are back in the 80's and feel like summer is already here.


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