Saturday, August 31, 2013
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Giant Swallowtail II
Giant Swallowtail II, a photo by bahayla on Flickr.
Papilio [Heraclides] cresphontes. Photo taken in Butterfly House on August 3, 2013.
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Sunday, August 25, 2013
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Broken Oak
Broken Oak, a photo by bahayla on Flickr.
A Southern Red Oak severely damaged by Hurricane Isabel. Photo take in September of 2003.Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Glass Dandelion
One of the glass sculptures on display as part of the Reflections of Nature collection that artist Craig Mitchell Smith created for the Garden's 75th anniversary. Photo taken on June 29, 2013.
Saturday, August 17, 2013
Breaking Ground
This bronze statue, Breaking Ground, stands in the WPA Memorial Garden as a tribute to the 220 African American women and men who cleared ground and planted azaleas as part of the Works Progress Administration Program that created the Norfolk Azalea Garden (later the Norfolk Municipal Garden and Norfolk Botanical Garden). Photo taken on April 27, 2013.
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Crape Myrtles in Bloom
Pink flowering crape myrtle (Lagerstroemia) trees bloom along this garden path across the canal from the Rose Garden. Photo taken on August 3, 2013.
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Thursday, August 8, 2013
Giant Swallowtail
Papilio [Heraclides] cresphontes. Photo taken in Butterfly House on August 3, 2013.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Saturday, August 3, 2013
Renaissance Garden
The four statues on the upper tiers of the Renaissance Garden represent the four seasons. Photo taken in the early 1990s.
Thursday, August 1, 2013
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino "Raphael"
One of the statues created by Sir Moses Ezekiel that lines the garden's Statuary Vista. Photo taken in the early 1990s.
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