Sunday, October 09, 2005
Chicago Botanic Gardens
This was our sensory experience for today and due to the expansiveness of the gardens, we start with a tram tour. We view 6 different English walled gardens (similar to the style at Atherton Gardens on Kauai), checkerboard gardens, medicinal plants and herb gardens. My 2 favorite sections were the rose garden- featuring over 200 varieties of roses arranged from dark to light color on a sloping landscape creating a fading illusion...and the miniature train gardens which depicted key tourist attractions such as Yellowstone Park, the White House, Space Needle and the Hancock Building with motorized trains rolling past... cool! Last but not least, I got a pic of Jon with some humongous agave plants, which is used to make tequila. Trivia: there is a rose named after Julia Child..guess what color it is? answer: "butter yellow" (it's one of the roses shown here)
