| This is a bat-faced
cuphea. |  |
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The gardens were hosting a scarecrow walk with about 30 scarecrows. As a
consequence there were lots of kids trying to find them including our
friends - we just tagged along. |
| This is the white witch
from Narnia. She looks scary enough for me! |  |
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The nice thing about botanical gardens is that they name their plants. This
is a ponderosa pine up close. |
| Whereas this adjacent
tree is a lodgepole pine. They have very straight trunks which makes them
useful for travelling natives when they need to construct a new lodge. |  |
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It being that time of year and with lots of kids about, we have to have the
pumpkin patch. |
| Not quite black but very
dark, we have seen a number of hollyhocks in flower, but this is also a
double. |  |
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Michaelmas daisies - a real profusion of colour. |
| A bronze of Sacajewea.
The section of garden around her is fairly new and concentrated on plants
she knew and introduced to Lewis & Clark. |  |
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This is apache plume (fallugia paradoxa). It comes from the deserts of New
Mexico and northern Mexico. The seed heads are very fine. It is considered
valuable for erosion control. |
| This is a Western red
cedar, perhaps not collected by Lewis and Clark, but certainly observed in
northern Idaho. |  |
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Where are the labels when you need them? This was a mass of silvery blue
berries but we are unsure of what it is... |
| This was very
interesting. There are about 20 samples of different turf grasses so that
one can see how they cope with the local conditions. |  |
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Inevitably trees get felled for sensible reasons. Then the funghi take over
and can take years to finish the job. |
| This isn't as colourful
as some gardens we have visited this year. But this spot was brilliant. Of
course the sunshine helped. |  |
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I suppose this counts as a scarecrow, although a scareblackbird might be
more appropriate. Many of the scarecrows represented characters from
children's books. |
| The pond had some nice
koi carp and we managed to avoid the surface reflections. |  |
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I don't remember a children's book with these two characters. Perhaps they
are relatives of click and clack from Car Talk. |
| This is a damask rose
(Rose de Rescht), an old variety from pre 1900. |  |
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This collection was at the entrance to the gardens. Very topical. |
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