Sunday’s water lily photo was taken at Powell Gardens, Kansas City’s botanical garden and home of this bug-eyed lady. I stole my title from them.
It’s always a moment of zen to go to Powell and we don’t do it often enough. We ambled through the woodland trail, relaxed in the shade of the water garden and enjoyed the perennial garden where the day lilies and hibiscus were at their best.
New this year is the Heartland Harvest Garden exhibit, an “edible landscape”, which is a fancy way of saying veggie patch, to “illustrate the journey of food from seed to plate”.
It’s unfair to call it a veggie patch because it’s so much more. There are apple, pear and peach orchards that wind around brick sidewalks next to a vineyard interplanted with hybrid tea roses that act as “canaries” as an early alert on soil problems. The seedling greenhouses were empty, and I need to go back to explore the author gardens (based upon the designs of famous garden/landscape writers) more. There are acres of vegetables laid out like quilt squares and a new barn that will be used as class rooms and resource center.
The only hokey thing I saw were the two resin Missouri mules. Not happenin’ for me but it was part of the kids’ gardens under development so I cut them some slack. Get real mules people.
I’m looking forward to watching it grow in the coming years.
I took lots of photos and I’ll feature a few of the better ones over the next couple of weeks. For now, here are a few highlights.
By the way, the sky in these photos? It was just that color on Sunday. Totally beautimous day.
On the woodland trail
In the vineyard
Looking through the gardens
Apple core(t) yard
I love the apple and the mantis. I neeeeed a mantis like that in my yard.
In Kansas?!
How amazing.
I can feel my blood pressure dropping just by looking at that green lushness! So pretty!
Love the bug and the apple core!
I’ve never been there – my next trip to KC, I’ll definitely have to see it.
WOW! We’ve got to go next time I’m in town. The kids are pretty good looking at plants as long as they have a map and binoculars