Tag: Tucson Botanical Gardens

Tucson – February 2023 – Botanical Gardens Close Up

Nature

The morning at the Tucson Botanical Gardens provided some great close up of plants and other items.

Aloe blooms ready to pop.

Early cholla blooms.

Despite the colder than usual Tucson winter, the flowers in pots are still doing well.

The oranges are about ready to be picked.

According to Google Image search this is a Firethorn plant.

The gardens has a nice mix of everyday items mixed in either as planters, or just decorations.

Strategically placed planters are scattered about the gardens.

More Google Image searches say this is a Red Hot Poker.

This is known as the Old Man Cactus for obvious reasons.

Our last view are the serious spikes on the top of this cactus.

Tucson – February 2023 – Lego Sculptures in the Botanical Gardens

Art, Festival, Nature

The Tucson Botanical Gardens has an exhibit with nearly full size sculptures of animals made out of Legos.

Sean Kenney is the artist, with the exhibit titled Nature POP!

The exhibit includes some flat pieces that resemble a painting.

Most of the full size sculptures are made up of over 50,000 Lego’s.

One section had an entire collection of rabbits.

There were a couple non animal sculptures.

The sculptures were well done, and added much color to the gardens.

Tucson – May 2022 – Butterflies

Nature

Amazing as it may seem the Tucson area is home to 3 very impressive botanical gardens. The smallest is the Tucson Botanical Garden, based on 5 acres in the middle of the city.

After taking the car in for service on a Saturday morning I was looking for something to do and found the gardens was a short distance from the garage. So off to the gardens!

Amongst the floral and fauna was an indoor space for orchids and butterflies (complete with humidity). The butterflies were amazing, and very tranquil. And don’t let anyone tell you differently – 80 and humid feels far worse than 95 and not humid, as we stepped back outside to the comfort of no humidity!