Palm Beach (container) Gardens

On a recent trip to Florida, I had the opportunity to take many many pictures of gardens. These are all container gardens located in Palm Beach Gardens (hence the post title).

All pictures were taken before 10am.  All pictures were tweaked a bit in Camera Raw. Not much though.

 Constructive criticism much appreciated!

Visit to Mounts Botanical Garden, Part 2

Previously, on this blog: a Visit to Mounts Botanical Garden, Part 1.

Here are the rest of the best pictures from that trip.  Starting with two plants I actually know about.



  Bougainvillea.


I've tried and failed to grow this in Georgia.

On several occasions, too, so it's nice to see a healthy one.

Breadfruit!

Never tried it.


Heard it tastes like potatoes and potatoes = bread somehow.

Click the link to learn more!


As a bonus, can you tell what I edited out of this picture?

(Using Photoshop, of course.)

Closeup of the breadfruit.




Still not resembling bread.

Closeup of the Desert Rose from the last post.


I did change the exposure of this one in Camera Raw, but nothing else was required.


The flower is naturally that pink-to-white gradient.
  
I'm wondering how well it does in deserts considering it rains a heck of a lot in Florida.

...And the link to the Desert Rose up above shows that in an arid environment, it's actually a lot bigger and healthier looking than the ones at the botanical garden.

This is a closeup of the waterfall in the shade garden.

It actually was a lot darker in there than the picture shows.

Changing the exposure in Camera Raw really helped this picture.

Here's a picture of the canopy of the shade garden.


On the edges are a few angel trumpet flowers.












This flower is another that's completely unknown to me.

 It's really unusual, it was one of my favorites.

It's unfortunately easy to tell that I had to do a lot of manipulation to it for it to look anywhere like it should.

The colors are much harsher than I wanted.  Oh well.  Still like the plant enough to post it.

And that's my trip to the Mounts Botanical Garden in West Palm Beach, Florida.  I really liked how they maintained their garden.  There are tons more flowers than what I posted here.

They'd be thrilled to have you visit!  The entrance fee is a $5.00 donation using the honor system.

Visit to Mounts Botanical Garden, Part 1

 A few weeks ago, I took a few days to visit my family in Palm Beach. 

We took a trip to the Mounts Botanical Gardens, so I could test out the Canon PowerShot S100.



It can save pictures in the Camera Raw format, which helps out tons when editing pictures in Photoshop.

 One small complaint I have about the Mounts Botanical Garden, other than the mosquitoes (I got eaten alive! In February!) is that very few of the plants had plaques telling you what they were.


I'd love it if someone would be able to help me out with some plant names  in the comments.

This is a Desert Rose. I only know that because it actually had a nameplate.



Probably because it's in a pot.


The picture is a bit too bright for my liking but if it wasn't for Camera Raw it would be even worse.

 Hey, a honeybee.  Really happy how this turned out.

I thought the bee would be too small and unnoticeable.

No idea what plant this is.

 This one is a Fire or Mammy Croton.

 I thought it was supposed to be a full sun plant but this one was sitting in the shade garden.

 This one had really soft fuzzy leaves.


I didn't touch it, but I'm just going by how it looks.

Really like how the flowers pop out in the foreground.

 This plant looks like it makes raspberries.

Hint: those aren't raspberries.

I'm a bit disappointed with the blurry foreground but I liked this plant too much to leave out this picture.

The wind was blowing way too hard to get consistently sharp pictures.

 In this picture, if you look closely you can see the sunlight cascading through the trees in the background.


Or its just a glare reflected by the camera.


Either way, it looks pretty.

Still would like to know what plant this is! I've never seen one.

 Okay, enough pictures on this post.  Next post will have the rest.  See you there!