Never ones to skip an outdoor adventure we jumped at the invitation to join Aaron and Tammy for a trek around the Bronx Botanical Gardens. We'd been in snow for the Orchid Show and in Summer for the Chihuly's but this was our first fall forage. An added bonus were the Henry Moore sculptures sitting ceremoniously around the grounds as if in their regular chairs.
The lily ponds behind the conservatory sparkled with the flourish of Japanese Chrysanthemums in varying degrees of glory. There were the flowing ones, the flouncy ones and the feisty ones. These not-in-your-mother's-garden mums are much more dramatic in person and believe it or not the white mountainous one all originates from a single stem!
Did you know that bamboo is the fasted growing plant on the planet? As much as four feet a day in prime conditions. Now that would be a good specimen for the time-elapse video feature of my camera. Aaron actually has the exact camera as me so the day was not only visually spectacular but through several tutorials greatly increased my camera-feature-awareness.
And bonzai are the slowest growing. Some of the bonzai on view were over 300 years old and resembled lilliputian forests.
Our day at the garden even included a Halloween Hoorah! Bears, ponies and alligators mingled with the rose bushes and gypsies, princesses and superheroes trampled through the forests.
A final swing around the perimeter included an off-trail climb followed by a visit to the library for plant and funghi facts.
Actually, I skipped the funghi to slumber midst the sprinkling of the fountain. Guess I needed a break, like the perambulator of this abandoned broom and wheelbarrow.
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