Wednesday, April 20, 2011

A Day At the Desert Botanical Gardens!

Monday daugther Angie, the kidos and grandma (moi) went to the Desert Botanical Gardens just off the Galvin Parkway...... thought we better get it in before the heat hits. Everything was blooming like crazy. Have not seen so many flowers on the cactus and the wildflower garden was just so beautiful.....

The kids were so anxious to go to the butterfly pavilion, so we made that our first stop.....
There were butterflies everywhere you turned and what a beautiful surroundings they had.... they will be there till Mother's Day. Then it gets just to darn hot for them.




Flowers everywhere... I was in flower heaven. I snapped so many pictures it was hard to chose which ones to put on the blog.....








These metal sculptures were positioned in between the flowers and cacti....


OHHHHHH SO TRUE!


Never knew these plants were called the chocolate flower...... learn something new everyday....










Another favorite of the grandkidos was the people and plants of the desert section... They had a ball going into the huts that had been constructed. And they ground mesquite tree pods with a smoothed out stick from a tree to make flower like the Indians did many moons ago......


The end of our journey through the gardens and the kidos had fun. And learned a few new facts about our beautiful desert along the way......




Highly recommend attending the gardens before it gets too hot. Right now is a perfect time with everything blooming.....


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