The beautiful new outdoor gardens at the US Botanic Garden in DC. This garden was positively loud with songbirds, which is so very noticable when you are in the heart of the city. They had a wetlands area that was buzzing with life, which is the far right corner of the photo. Beautiful!!! Shirley and I had fun walking around and enjoying the lush gardens inside and out. When I lived here I used to visit the garden on my lunch hour. Heavenly on a cold winter day.
Lush papaya fruit inside the Botanic Garden. I would have liked to take one home to eat!
Folger Shakespeare Theater/Library gardens. Pinks, boxwood, rosemary, newly planted lavender, and thyme. Rosemary for remembrance was used for both weddings and funerals, according to our most informative tour guide. People were buried with sprigs of rosemary in their coffins in Elizabethan England, a custom that continued in the U.S. colonies.
Lovely rose from same garden.
Linden tree.
The Botanic gardens in DC have really changed since we visited DC when you lived there. Dad really liked the roses and papaya fruit and especially the lavendar plants.
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