TODAY'S FLOWERS ~ Spring has Sprung at the Gardens

On the way back from Melbourne last week, we stopped in at

the Ballarat Botanical Gardens and what a sight met our eyes!

Even outside the gardens the grass was full of daisies

and once we got inside, I was quite surprises at the grand

spring plantations that had been brought into being.

Spring bulbs galore, thick as thieves between the azaleas

and beds planted around the birches in circles and arcs.

How can one resist such beauty?

I certainly could not and kept snapping away . . . can you see

the little statue in the background?

Another innovation since last we visited, is that immense glass

house. The lanterns are like old fashioned gaslights and there

are quite a number of marble statues and bronze busts of all

the Australian prime ministers lining an avenue of very old trees.

Here is a raised semi-circular bed of multi-coloured polyanthus.

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TODAY'S FLOWERS ~ Wittunga Botanical Gardens

Adelaide has three Botanical Gardens, the oldest in the CBD

of Adelaide, the mountain gardens at Mt.Lofty and the third

within the southern suburbs is Wittunga.

As you enter the gardens and nose into your parking spot,

you are greeted with this view of a magnificent pink

Callistemon in full bloom.

At present the gardens are filled with colour whichever way

you look.

There are many shady paths to wander and enjoy and green

lawns to picnic on, ducks to feed on the pond or grazing on

the lawns. A very people friendly place with all paths

negotiable by wheel chairs.

My camera and I spent a happy hour there last week.

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Thanks to all the happy flower people at TODAY'S FLOWERS

who host this meme we can smell the roses all around the world.