Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden - October 21, 2006

Our former neighbor Thu Oanh and Ruth's visit to Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden.

 

View from the colonnade. In the colonade. View in the colonnade to a Christmas tree of white lights. In the colonnade.
Thu Oanh in the colonnade. Ruth in the colonnade. Thu Oanh enjoying an autumn stroll in the Allee' Garden. Ruth photographing the colonnade.
Ruth enjoying a ripened cluster of minature bananas. Thu Oanh appreciates a ripe pink minature banana cluster. Thu Oanh admires a hibiscus blossom. Thu Oanh looks at the minature bananas.
Hibiscus in the Canal Garden. Meadow saffron (Colchicum speciosum). Crocus. Hibiscus in the Canal Garden.
Plumes, one curled at the tip end from a spider's web. Minature pink-skinned bananas, and empty opened peels. Minature pink-skinned bananas, and new crop in blossom. Strikingly tall feathery plumes.
Fruit of the vine hangs from the top of the colonnade. Bright red berries on shrub. Close-up of bright red berries on shrub. Yellow lantana blossom and its shadow.
Striking blossom. Purple beauty berries amidst purple flowers. Palmetto. Lily blossoms.
A flower you can look up to, if you will. A tiny blossom and buds of flowering maple (Abutilon megapotamicum), tucked away in dense foliage. The garden, awash in autumn shades of color. Close-up along the colonnade.
Canal Garden leaping fish sculpture. Leaping fish sculpture in the Canal Garden. Overview of the Canal Garden. Cottage Garden and Canal Garden fountains — so inviting.
Big fountain at the end of the Canal Garden. Along the Canal Garden. A beautiful day to roll past garden blooms and fountains. Crown Fountain — music for the ears, beauty to the eyes.

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Photos by Ruth, and of Ruth by Thu Oanh, in Belmont, N.C.

Here is our Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden Shutterbug Photo Contest trip;

Thu Oanh and I came to take pictures and enter all the amateur categories:

  architecture, people, plants, water, and—we hoped—come enjoy an event.*

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