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June 03: Botanic Gardens: Part 1 (Flowers)
Last Monday (June 3rd), we went to the Denver Botanic Gardens with my mom and Taylor. We got a bit of a late start, as Alex had a doctor appointment that went more than an hour longer than it was supposed to. But we still got there with plenty of time to make it around the whole of the gardens. It also wound up being overcast, which was nice as it made the near-90° temps easier to deal with for hours!
I took... a lot of pictures. Like, I think I need to split this into four separate posts a lot of pictures.
The real star of the gardens while we were there were the irises, which were juuuuust after their peak, but were still spectacular. This first post will be devoted to all the flowers that aren't irises, ha. The second post will be the irises, the third will be all the animals of various kinds we saw, and the fourth will be the current art installation at the gardens.
The roses were just getting started, but they were already looking beautiful. And many smelled amazing, of course!
Peonies were mostly done, but some were still going strong in the shade. I feel like yellow is an unusual color for them. (They were also huge!)
I always love the splashed, multi-colored roses like this. Big "painting the roses red" vibes.
Another beautiful peony!
Nice yellow columbine.
A really nice rosebud. Such bright colors! I like having it next to a pine in one of the shadier gardens.
This bed had lots of peonies still blooming! It was hard to get all of them in the picture, and I didn't manage, quite.
Stealing a joke from my sibling: These flowers said #transrights!
There were lots of cacti blooming (and more were, I'm sure, absolutely beautiful a few days after our visit.)
The most spectacular of the cacti!
(I wish I'd gotten more pictures from this garden - there were more cacti blooming just as amazingly. Unfortunately that particular garden was from late in the day, and my phone battery was dying. I had to get a lot choosier with what I took pictures of!)
Not a blooming cactus, but a very bright paintbrush in front of the prickly pear.
Peachy flower on a prickly pear.
And pink!
Very large cactus, yellow this time!
Barrel cactus with a really cute little "crown" of flowers.
From inside the succulent house.
The whole day was really nice. It was fun to spend the day together, and it was a really nice time to be outside. I'm so glad for the warm weather, and even in the upper 80s I didn't have too tough a time. (Taylor did a bit, but we took frequent breaks in the shade for them.) I was still pretty sore from the model show on the 1st, but surprisingly didn't have too much trouble with that, even.
More pictures to come!
I took... a lot of pictures. Like, I think I need to split this into four separate posts a lot of pictures.
The real star of the gardens while we were there were the irises, which were juuuuust after their peak, but were still spectacular. This first post will be devoted to all the flowers that aren't irises, ha. The second post will be the irises, the third will be all the animals of various kinds we saw, and the fourth will be the current art installation at the gardens.
The roses were just getting started, but they were already looking beautiful. And many smelled amazing, of course!
Peonies were mostly done, but some were still going strong in the shade. I feel like yellow is an unusual color for them. (They were also huge!)
I always love the splashed, multi-colored roses like this. Big "painting the roses red" vibes.
Another beautiful peony!
Nice yellow columbine.
A really nice rosebud. Such bright colors! I like having it next to a pine in one of the shadier gardens.
This bed had lots of peonies still blooming! It was hard to get all of them in the picture, and I didn't manage, quite.
Stealing a joke from my sibling: These flowers said #transrights!
There were lots of cacti blooming (and more were, I'm sure, absolutely beautiful a few days after our visit.)
The most spectacular of the cacti!
(I wish I'd gotten more pictures from this garden - there were more cacti blooming just as amazingly. Unfortunately that particular garden was from late in the day, and my phone battery was dying. I had to get a lot choosier with what I took pictures of!)
Not a blooming cactus, but a very bright paintbrush in front of the prickly pear.
Peachy flower on a prickly pear.
And pink!
Very large cactus, yellow this time!
Barrel cactus with a really cute little "crown" of flowers.
From inside the succulent house.
The whole day was really nice. It was fun to spend the day together, and it was a really nice time to be outside. I'm so glad for the warm weather, and even in the upper 80s I didn't have too tough a time. (Taylor did a bit, but we took frequent breaks in the shade for them.) I was still pretty sore from the model show on the 1st, but surprisingly didn't have too much trouble with that, even.
More pictures to come!