Botanical Gardens Arizona Style

[pattrose]

We had a great time, there were like 80 pictures, but I couldn't decide which ones to choose. So, we decided on these, and they are labeled for the most part. It was a glorious day. March 12th, and it was 87 degrees, F. It's quite different than your usual Botanical Gardens I"ve seen. Everything is made for the desert.

Comments

[mxcatmoon]

Very nice! Thanks for sharing. I'm glad you had a great time.

[pattrose]

Thank you. We did have a good time. Next week were going to Tucson, museum of art. We've heard wonderful things about it and can't wait to check it out.

Tucson Museum of Art, 140 N. Main Ave., (520) 624-2333
This up-and-coming regional museum occupies a whole city block; the main building, in a 1960s brutalist style, stands harmoniously alongside a collection of historic buildings arranged around a lovely patio. (The patio also has a restaurant, Café a la C’Art.) TMA hosts a wide array of regularly changing exhibitions by noted artists. Chief curator Dr. Julie Sasse snagged a show by Ai Weiwei, the internationally known Chinese artist-activist, and has put together with other exhibitions charting everything from the rise of contemporary string art to the new emphasis on the “nocturne” in art--sensuous night-time works in paint and print. An every-other-year juried Arizona Biennial charts trends in the state. Outstanding permanent collections include The Art of Latin America, which starts with pre-Columbian antiquities dating to 500 B.C., on up through Spanish colonial art and into the quirky folk art of today. The Art of the American West features paintings and sculpture depicting the landscape and peoples of the West, by such notables as the late Native American artist Fritz Scholder and painters Ed Mell and Maynard Dixon.

[kazzy_cee]

What an interesting place.

[pattrose]

Like I said it way different than most gardens. I guess when they opened it they had all African or Hawaiian themed plants. But everything died and it was in February. That's when they brought in all new plants. Ones that could survive. It's not as pretty as a Hawaiian garden, but it's what we have. I loved it, but we're used to desert plants. T big building with butterflies was so cool. We were swarmed by butterflies. Quite beautiful.

[galadhir]

I like the funny spheres on the bottom. Are they plants?

[pattrose]

They are different kinds of cactus.

[starandrea]

Wow! ♥.♥ This looks so amazing. Thank you for sharing pictures. I didn't imagine anything like this, and it's wonderful to see.

Also, happy belated birthday!! I hope the whole year is fantastic.

[pattrose]

Thank you for the birthday greetings. Have you ever been to Arizona? The plant life in the desert soil is very different from that in a normal Botanical Garden. We had a wonderful time. We want to get a yearly pass and start going more than once a year.