posted: July 31st, 2015 |
This page begins and ends with June 28th and a visit to Jindai Botanical Garden. That was the only outing we had this month. What's happening to us? No mountains climbed, no far away travels, no big adventures? I don't know, possibly it's due to the weather being way too hot for comfort.   Click on any thumbnail to begin.
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Begin June 28th |
  The first two shots in this row show the very red flowers of Erythrina crista-galli. The 3rd shot shows the entrance area to the Big Lawn at Jindai Botanical Garden. |
Jun28_01_JindaiBot Gar_RedFlowerRC |
June28th_01_Jindai BG_RedFlowerRC |
Jun28_06_JindaiBot Gar_LawnAreaRC |
  Here are two closer shots of the Daisies at the entrance to the Big Lawn and then a shot of a Lotus Flower. |
Jun28_08_JindaiBot Gar_LawnAreaRC |
June28th_05_Jindai BG_DaisyRC |
Jun28_19_JindaiBot Gar_LotusRC |
  Here are three additional shots of Lotus flowers and plants. In the first shot notice how they grow them here. |
Jun28_17_JindaiBot Gar_LotusRC |
Jun28_18_JindaiBot Gar_LotusRC |
June28th_13_Jindai BG_LotusRC |
  Here are three final shots of pink Lotus flowers, two of them from below the flower. |
Jun28_11_JindaiBot Gar_LotusRC |
June28th_09_Jindai BG_LotusRC |
Jun28_13_JindaiBot Gar_LotusRC |
  The first photo in this row shows a white colored Lotus Flower and then two shots of Liatris pycnostachya. |
Jun28_16_JindaiBot Gar_LotusRC |
Jun28_26_JindaiBotGar_ Liatris_pycnostachyaRC |
Jun28_25_JindaiBotGar_ Liatris_pycnostachyaRC |
  The first photo in this row is of a Hydrangea Flower. The center one is another shot of Liatris pycnostachya, with a bee on it, and the third shot is another Hydrangea. |
June28th_24_Jindai BG_HydrangeaRC |
June28th_21_Jindai BG_PurpleFlowerRC |
Jun28_33_JindaiBot Gar_HydrangeaRC |
  And here are three more Hydrangea photos, two blue ones and one white one. |
Jun28_34_JindaiBot Gar_HydrangeaRC |
June28th_25_Jindai BG_HydrangeaRC |
Jun28_52_JindaiBot Gar_HydrangeaRC |
  In this row are three shots of a clump of White Hydrangea. The third shot shows my hand so that you can get an idea of the size of these flowers! |
June28th_40_Jindai BG_HydrangeaRC |
Jun28_53_JindaiBot Gar_HydrangeaRC |
Jun28_54_JindaiBot Gar_HydrangeaRC |
  All three photos in this row show the Big Lawn area. In the first shot the Pampas Grass partially shows on the right edge of the photo. The second photo is zoomed in somewhat and the third shot is zoomed in to show the patch of Pampas Grass, which is just barely beginning to flower. |
Jun28_35_JindaiBot Gar_LawnAreaRC |
Jun28_36_JindaiBot Gar_LawnAreaRC |
Jun28_24_JindaiBot Gar_PampasGrassRC |
  In first position in this row is a photo of a Dragonfly and in second and third position are shots of Helwingia japonica - a plant in which the fruiting body is in the center of the leaves. |
Jun28_39_JindaiBotGar_ DragonflyFromDNGRC |
Jun28_44_JindaiBot Gar_Helwingia_japonicaRC |
Jun28_45_JindaiBot Gar_Helwingia_japonicaRC |
  Now we move on to the pond area and two shots of amazingly beautiful pink water lilies. Then we headed out the back entrance to go to lunch and we found some blooming Cymbidium nipponicum Orchids in bloom near the back entrance. |
Jun28_48_JindaiBot Gar_WaterLilyRC |
Jun28_49_JindaiBot Gar_WaterLilyRC |
Jun28_56_JindaiBotGar_ Cymbidium_nipponicumRC |
  Here is one additional shot of the Cymbidium nipponicum Orchid. After we ate lunch at a soba shop just outside of the back entrance of Jindai Botanical Garden, we went down the road to the Aquatic portion of the garden and found this interesting purple flower growing there. |
Jun28_58_JindaiBotGar_ Cymbidium_nipponicumRC |
June28th_49_JindaiBG _AquaticParkRC |
Jun28_63_JindaiBot Gar_PurpleFlowerRC |
  In the Aquatic portion of the Botanical Garden we also found an abundance of the Saururus chinensis plant. Not every leaf on these plants is white, just most of them. To me, it appears that a bird crapped on the leaves of this plant. |
June28th_51_Jindai BG_AquaticParkRC |
Jun28_65_JindaiBotGar_ Saururus_chinensisRC |
June28th_52_JindaiBG _AquaticParkRC |
  After we finished up in the Aquatic Park we went back to the main Botanical Garden and walked past the pond area (a different pond than shown up above in Row 11) and found more water lilies in bloom here than ever before. WOW! |
Jun28_71_Jindai BotGar_WaterLilyRC |
Jun28_75_Jindai BotGar_WaterLilyRC |
  Here are three zoomed in shots of beautiful pink water lily flowers. |
June28th_55_Jindai BG_WaterLilyRC |
Jun28_68_JindaiBot Gar_WaterLilyRC |
Jun28_69_JindaiBot Gar_WaterLilyRC |
End June 28th, End July 2015's Photos, Begin Miscellaneous Links |