A Trip to a Garden

I took a trip to a large garden recently and found quite a variety of blooming flowers. They even had a little pond with blooming lotus flowers.

Koi and goldfush liked hanging around under the liky pads. Sadly they didn't have fish food machines to feed them. I wonder if koi fish like eating Japanese beetles?

Here's a couple more lotus flowers blooming. I see another goldfish 8s headed for this shady island. Maybe they eat alagae under the lily pads.

Milkweed is growing everywhere here and the monarch larvae has hatched. Quite a few of the butterflies are out right now.

I think they might have another batch of butterflies hatching in September and those will be the ones that migrate south for the winter to Mexico.

The cone flowers are in full bloom with bees collecting their pollen.

Now for the rest of the garden. They have quite a few manicured displays here with colorful plant designs. This display kind of looks like lava and flames.

Other areas are just colorful. For some reason the bees weren't attracted to them. Maybe the pollen is bitter.

The rose garden area was mostly roasted by the summer heat. This yellow rose was still pristine.

Here's an unopened rosebud from the same plant. Lets hope it can survive the onslaught of the sun and Japan

Look at this exotic flower. I'm no expert on flowers I wish I knew its name.

I see these out in the wild all the time. I wonder if they originated from this garden and they were spread around by the wind and birds eating the seeds.

That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)