Huntington Gardens: Shakespeare Garden & greenhouse
September6
Part 1 of a 3-part series from pictures taken at the Huntington Library & Gardens. Click to see the whole image.
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- Teeny little strawberry growing under the protection of the leaves.
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- You don’t often see flowers so blue/purple.
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- A huge bush with lots of flowers.
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- Among those flowers was a giant black bee buzzing around.
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- The bush was also teeming with bees pollinating.
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- I spot two pomegranates in a tree!
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- It’s a fuzzy plant that looks like it belongs in the lettuce or cabbage family.
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- Hidden amongst all that fuzz was a grasshopper perfectly camouflaged.
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- We went into the greenhouse and immediately came across these bean pods.
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- Do the leaves turn this dark red when they get old?
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- Funny how they dangle, yet their petals grow up and expose the stems (versus most plants where the petals protect them).
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- I’m thinking these are plantains? Or do bananas grow upwards as well?
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- These are for you to see how certain plants have seeds that will float along with the wind.
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- Our friend Opti spun too hard and blew it all the way to the top, where it got stuck.
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- I pose with these huge highlighter yellow flowers.
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- I think this is a root of some sort.
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- Well, now I’m not so sure it’s a root. What are they??
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- In the kid’s garden, there was this sculpture of a tortoise that I decided to get a ride on.
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- Trying to maintain my balance while being told by Panda to smile.
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- It looks more like a vegetable than a fruit to me.
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- The baby versions of that vegetable-looking plant.
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- I love plants like these that eat bugs!
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- It’s a quite a long way to the bottom. I think I see some bugs in there.
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- These have quite the design on them.
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- Now these are my favorite plants! The one and only Venus flytrap.
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- Check out those little claws. So delicate yet so menacing.
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- Here’s a magnified look.
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- A little camera was available for taking a closer look.
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- And here’s that plant with my camera’s zoom.
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- Looking up to see what there is.
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- This flower hadn’t opened yet, but I could get a peek inside.
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