Atlanta Botanical Garden

The Botanical Gardens in Atlanta surprised me—they're impressive and have quite the leg-up on the Fort Worth Gardens and Dallas as well.

Above: An elevated path amongst the canopy of a forested area.
Below: Impressive potted containers—huge!

Below: A Chihuly installation. There are several of his works around the gardens. (This guy has got to be wealthy, we run into his glasswork everywhere!)

Dear Fort Worth, please take note: At the Atlanta Botanical gardens, a Scarecrow competition takes place and it was on full display for Halloween. What a fantastic idea! There are a few people, I think, who would enjoy doing this enough team up with me and submit an entry, or become my competition. (My mom, Lysha, Heidi, Larissa, Laurel...?) There were SO MANY great ideas. Here are two:

Not what you would expect right? Don't worry, there were enough gory ones to placate that side of you as well. 

Below: Don't you just love variegated foliage? Look at this! The leaves are SO interesting. Though, I'm not sure I care for variegation as viewed on an entire plant. It's much better when studied leaf by leaf.

The featured temporary installations were Alice in Wonderland themed (mingled with other, permanent collections of animals.) 

The gardens also have an orchid greenhouse. I've never seen such a variety before of orchids before—didn't know they could be so diverse!

We also ran into a "jungle" greenhouse and a "desert" greenhouse (no photos though.)

 

It was just a relaxing experience. I enjoyed it particularly because it was a respite from the emotional toll of being floxed. I was also physically feeling pretty good that day (you can tell because I can actually carry my own purse)—we were nearing the end of my treatments and our stay in Georgia. I would go back to enjoy the garden again anytime.