Norfolk Botanical Garden | Summer 2017

Hello Everyone!
   The first post of the summer and I went to the Botanical Garden in Norfolk, VA. The day was super hot and unfortunately I got a sunburn on our visit. Plus a few mosquitos had a great time eating my legs...but we still had a great time!
   We started in the rose garden, the largest rose garden on the east coast, 3 acres big, there was so many colors. Running along side the roses was a small river and a pretty stone bridge with vines.

The rose garden

   We made our way down a wood planked path, running along the lake, that had native plants and tons of lillies. It was a short walk till we arrived at the butterfly house. At the botanical garden they are breeding many types of butterflies that they plan to release later this summer.

The butterfly house

   Everywhere you go in the garden is surrounded by water. We took a small detour, while in the azalea forrest, and found the cutest little pink flower growning on the edge of the lake.

   After our long walk through the forrest we finally made it to the Japanese garden. The Japanese section was my absolute favorite part, I've never been to one, and the lotus plants were gorgeous! We took a small break at the cafe and had a smoothie, before seeing the tropical greenhouse.

Huge staghorn ferns!

Crab apples

Raspberries

   Surprisingly there are a lot of fruits at the garden: blueberries, raspberries, limes, pomegranates, strawberries, and crab apples.

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United States Botanic Garden!

Hi Everyone!
   It's been awhile, since summer actually, but I have a lot to show you. My mom just visited me for a week and a half and we went on so many adventures. Again I went back up to Washington D.C., my 4th time since moving to Virginia, it was my mom's first time exploring the city. Besides checking out the monuments we really wanted to see the U.S. Botanical Garden! I took a lot of pictures. Everything was so beautiful, like, extremely beautiful.

The garden is sectioned into different climates and regional plantlife. The largest room is the Tropics: full of plants with gigantic leafs. There is a canopy walk that circles around the upper level of the room. My camera started to fog up instantly because of the humidy and I needed to take off my jacket!

The canopy walk

My momma!

The desert room

a starfish?

bananas!

There was a lot of art students drawing there and I was so jealous lol. I really wanted to sit and draw too but we had limited time and a lot more planned to see! Next time for sure ;) 

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