Visit to San Diego Botanical Gardens

These are photos from my latest trip to San Diego Botanical Gardens. Its always interesting to visit botanical gardens in the summer. Anytime your yard is looking sad and nothing is flowering go to a local botanic garden. You can always come away with great ideas for what to plant in summer that can handle the heat but still look nice. Also I like to go during the week in the middle of the day since they are generally very quiet. Its always nice too because the people working in the gardens generally wont be as busy and can answer questions about specific plants. 

As you can imagine it takes awhile to type up the names for all these plants but I am just about done and will be posting them soon. In the meantime please enjoy the pictures.

Children's Garden

Catching a Sunrise

What happens when its 5am and I cant sleep? I go catch a sunrise and take pictures...

Vista Sleeps

After taking a drive I came home and checked out what was blooming in the yard

Salvia Coccinea

Hoya Pubicalyx

Encyclia Orchid

Asclepias Curassavica- This is a Monarch butterfly host plant

Fern spores starting to grow

And then I got pooped on...again

The hummingbirds are most active around 7-8am

I got to see my first male black chinned hummingbird this morning. He wasn’t as aggressive as the larger birds so I didn’t get any supper clear images but hopefully he will stick around and I will have more opportunities to photograph him.