Monday, April 5, 2010

Melbourne Botanical Gardens – Part 3

Related posts:
Melbourne Botanical Gardens – Part 1
Melbourne Botanical Gardens – Part 2

Here are more photos from my visits the Melbourne Botanical Gardens. I am only uploading one photo for each variety to keep the post short. Hopefully you make it to the end…

Unfortunately I don’t know the names of these beauties, but please feel free to share if you know.

All photos will enlarge – just click.

Cactus © Evelyn Howard 2010

Cactus © Evelyn Howard 2010

Cactus © Evelyn Howard 2010

Cactus © Evelyn Howard 2010

Cactus © Evelyn Howard 2010

Cactus © Evelyn Howard 2010

Cactus © Evelyn Howard 2010

Cactus © Evelyn Howard 2010

 

cactus_sjimmie Hope you enjoyed these photos. There’s more! Next time I will upload some succulent photos, so hopefully I will be able to wrap the series.

Please visit Teri’s Painted Daisies for more Cactus Monday links.

18 comments:

Cynthia DiBlasi - Fine Art said...

These are beautiful shots Evelyn! HCM!!!

Julie said...

Prickly city!!!!! Yikes!!!

Margaret Ann said...

Beautiful plants...such gorgeous light and camera angles too! :) HCM!

Noelle Johnson said...

What an amazing assortment of cacti. I cannot wait to see more!

danger garden said...

Beautiful photos! Especially the second one, thank you for posting them!

Diane AZ said...

Interesting textures and shades of green!

marianne said...

My gosh what a load of wonderful cacti!
Great pictures!
HCM!!!

SandyCarlson said...

Wow. These cacti are subtle and beautiful.

Steve Asbell said...

I think that those low growing fuzzy cacti are chollas, which I have seedlings of. Wonderful Photos! I just thought I'd let you know that I nominated you for a Mouse and Trowel Award!

Teri said...

Oh my, talk about cactus heaven!!! They are all so gorgeous!!!

HCM!

Bradley Hsi said...

Lovely cactus garden, we are two wet in Taiwan to have cactus. Like your "Today's Flower" post also. Thanks for visiting our blog.

Johnny Nutcase said...

I love all the cacti!! Great post, all the photos are great!

Melanie J Watts said...

These are fabulous photos. I imagine some of those cacti are taller than you!

Louis la Vache said...

«Louis» just visited your Evelyn Howard.com website.
Very nicely done - and you really have some impressive work.

Unseen India Tours said...

Simply beautiful and fantastic shot !!Unseen Rajasthan

Aaerelon said...

Beautiful Cacti! I love the personal drawings at the side!

Dirty Girl Gardening said...

Cacti are awesome... until they bite you.

Louis la Vache said...

hee hee
All those prickly cacti remind «Louis» of the personality of his former father-in-law...

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