Botantic Garden

On Saturday we visited the University of Cambridge Botantic Garden. It was a beautiful day and the Garden was highly recommended to us by Doris Keefer who came from Ashland Seminary in Spring 2007. We enjoyed walking through the large (40 acres) complex and seeing some interesting things. We hope you enjoy seeing some of our pictures. (Click on a picture to enlarge it.)

Our camera's timer helped us get a picture of us together.

The large fountain in the center of the complex.

It is hard to believe this was taken in England with the tall bamboo.

We saw palm trees and bushes too.

We think this looks like a large rhubarb plant. It was probably about 6 ft high.

Botanic Garden - Unique Features

We saw some pretty cool things at the Botanic Garden. Here are some of our favorite pictures:

This bird had lots of colors: gray, brown, black and a unique red & yellow beak!

This tree was large and the one branch was very long and hung quite low.

A "Bird of Paradise" flower.

Another unique tree...it is very tall and has an interesting branch too.

These are flowers (not a group of little birds!) that hung down off the plant and had bright red leaves with yellow and green tips.

Botanic Garden - Insects

John also took some amazing photos of insects that we thought you may enjoy seeing.

A bee just after getting the pollen for making honey.

A butterfly taking a break on a black-eyed susan.

A dragonfly resting its wings.

Another bee looking for pollen on these unique flowers.

One more bee on a pretty purple flower.