Eagle eyes will note that the above is not a shot of the San Antonio skyline. Yes, other cities have botanical gardens, too!
I do have more to show you about our local center, but I recently visited Austin's, and found it different, but just as nice.
I think it's actually been around longer than ours, and while not quite as extensive, the maturity of its landscape and hardscape leads to its distinctiveness. Not to mention a couple of unique (or at least not represented in SA's garden) features:
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| One of the garden's bonsai trees... Cedar elms! like, and unlike, what we have in our front yard |
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| Dino garden! |
The "dinosaur garden" not only featured the cute sculpture you see above, but the plants in the area were mostly primitive as well. Visitors thereby get an idea of what kinds of flora those ancient fauna might have been familiar with. An example is at the right.
Quite an imaginative and lovely space, which also has an impressive waterfall.
We were lucky with the weather for our visit, as it was overcast and a little cool, but I suspect this garden might be visitable even when the temps get summery, since most of its paths are so shaded.
I have to add a couple of lovely shots I took during another Austin excursion, to another garden. This was the Mayfield Park and Preserve, otherwise known as the peafowls' hangout. Unfortunately they weren't posing for me this day, but you can see some pretty spectacular photos of them at the link above. I'll just show you a couple of flower pix:
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| their lily ponds are wonderful |
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| fabulous amaryllis! |
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