Off the Wall Falls, originally uploaded by harogi.
The Liliʻuokalani Botanical Garden is a city park and young botanical garden located on North Kuakini Street, Honolulu, Hawaii. It is one of the Honolulu Botanical Gardens, and open daily without charge.
Go with the Flow, originally uploaded by harogi.
The garden’s site was given to the City and County of Honolulu by Queen Liliʻuokalani, Hawaiʻi’s last reigning monarch, and contains the Nuʻuanu Stream and Waikahalulu waterfall. It is under development to feature native Hawaiian plants.
Blue Strawberry Flowers, Memecylon caeruleum, Botanical Gardens, Singapore, originally uploaded by Rana Pipiens.
I’m not a huge fan of close-up pictures of flowers but this close-up of tiny strawberry tree blossoms caught my eye and seemed like it deserved some attention. It’s not just the clear detail of the tiny flowers but the composition of the photo is excellent with a predominant grouping of five pink blossoms and the single fully open purple blossom creating a creat colour combination.
Rose Window, originally uploaded by cybersooz.
Another photo form Butchart Gardens in Victoria, this picture is taken in the rose garden with the roses creating a perfect natural frame for a bright blue sky. Great shot!
Colorfall, originally uploaded by ecstaticist.
I know it’s spring but when I came across this digitally enhanced autumn photo of a small waterfall in the Japanese Garden at Butchart Gardens I just had to post it. The photography is amazing and the colours are so vibrant!
Paleis Het Loo is a palace in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. The Dutch Baroque building was built between 1684 and 1686 with the garden design by Claude Desgotz.
Palace Het Loo Apeldoorn, originally uploaded by SeeHolland.
The famous Dutch Baroque Garden at Het Loo Paleis follows the Baroque general formula established by André Le Nôtre: perfect symmetry, axial layout with radiating gravel walks, parterres with fountains, basins and statues.
the Netherlands - Apeldoorn, Palace Het Loo, originally uploaded by vtveen.
The main garden, with conservative rectangular beds instead of more elaborately shaped ones, is an enclosed space surrounded by raised walks, as a Renaissance garden might be, tucked into the woods for private enjoyment.
At its far end a shaded crosswalk of trees disguised the central vista. The orange trees set out in wooden boxes and wintered in an Orangery, which were a feature of all gardens, did double duty for the House of Orange-Nassau.
Paleis Het Loo Gardens, originally uploaded by Breigh.com.
In 1960 Queen Wilhelmina declared that when she died the palace would go to the State. It did in 1962, when Wilhelmina died at Het Loo Palace. After a thorough restoration it now houses a national museum and library devoted to the House of Orange-Nassau in Dutch history. The lost gardens of Het Loo were fully restored starting in 1970, in time to celebrate its tricentennial in 1984. Its new brickwork, trelliswork and ornaments are as raw as they must have been in 1684 and will mellow with time.
Het Loo, originally uploaded by ~Janneke.
From Garden Tour, originally uploaded by dnn_rchmnd.
I think I recognize this extensively landscaped backyard from a feature in Gardens West magazine a few years ago. If I’m correct the garden is somewhere around the West Coast of BC and features several Wooden bridges and stone paths woven designed around a large multi-level water garden. As indicated by the photo title, it was part of Garden Tour a few years back, likely around the same time it was featured in a garden magazine.
