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Photo of the Week: Denver Botanic Gardens

July 18, 2021August 5, 2018 by Deborah Edwards-Oñoro

shallow pool filled with grasses and water lilies

While I was in Denver, Colorado for WordCamp Denver 2018 last weekend, I didn’t want to miss the opportunity to visit the Denver Botanic Gardens on the east side of Denver.

With over 23 acres, the Denver Botanic Gardens has 43 unique gardens.

Wish I could have made it to all of them!

One of my favorite places at the Garden was the Monet Pool. I sat on one of the nearby benches in the shade, cooling off from the 90-plus degree Farenheit temperatures. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Denver Botanic Gardens

Photo of the Week: Tree Peonies in Bloom

July 18, 2021June 3, 2018 by Deborah Edwards-Oñoro

deep magenta peony blooms against green leaves

With the warm weather over the past couple weeks in southeast Michigan, our gardens are filled with color from mid-to-late spring flowers, including gorgeous deep purple lilacs, brilliant orange poppies, and the soft pink of crabapple flowers.

One of my favorite spring flowers in bloom is the peony, and there’s no better place to view the wide variety of peonies than at the Peony Garden at the Nichols Arboretum in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

People throughout Michigan and beyond travel to the almost 100-year-old Peony Garden to stroll through the 27 beds of the 200+ varieties of herbaceous peonies.

Tree Peonies

And while many people plan a trip to the garden to see herbaceous peonies in late spring, I love taking a tour a few weeks earlier, when the tree peonies are in bloom. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Tree Peonies in Bloom

Photo of the Week: Double Gold Spirea in Winter

July 18, 2021February 18, 2018 by Deborah Edwards-Oñoro

dark buds of Spirea japonica against the white snow

In the fall, I don’t cut back the dead flowers of the Black-eyed Susans, Double Gold Spirea, and other plants in my front courtyard. I love how the stalks pop through the snow from November through February, adding interest to the otherwise white landscape. With the weather warming up to the mid-sixties degrees Farenheit this… Continue reading Photo of the Week: Double Gold Spirea in Winter

Photo of the Week: Denver Botanic Gardens

Photo of the Week: Tree Peonies in Bloom

Tree Peonies

Photo of the Week: Double Gold Spirea in Winter

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