RHH's photos with the keyword: botanic gardens

Palm House, Belfast Botanic Gardens

Palm House, Belfast Botanic Gardens

RHH
25 Oct 2020 20 11 128
This is the Palm House in the Belfast Botanic Gardens. It was closed, as were all the other buildings when I was there. Completed in 1840, it is one of the earliest curvilinear cast iron greenhouses in the world.
Palm House

Palm House

RHH
25 Oct 2020 13 3 101
This is the Palm House in the Belfast Botanic Gardens.
Grenovia aurea

Grenovia aurea

RHH
01 Aug 2009 1 424
Photographed at the Devonian Botanic Gardens in Devon, Alberta, Canada.
Malaysian Blue Clipper Butterfly (Parthenos sylvia lilacinus)

Malaysian Blue Clipper Butterfly (Parthenos sylvia…

RHH
12 Aug 2009 1 1 1214
In Explore August 11, 2009, #33. Photographed in the Tropical Plant and Butterfly House at the Devonian Botanic Garden in Devon, Alberta, Canada. Thanks to tink tracy for the id.
Malaysian Blue Clipper Butterfly (Parthenos sylvia lilacinus)

Malaysian Blue Clipper Butterfly (Parthenos sylvia…

RHH
13 Aug 2009 1 387
Photographed in the Tropical Plant and Butterfly House at the Devonian Botanic Gardens in Devon, Alberta, Canada.
Billbergia vittata

Billbergia vittata

RHH
14 Aug 2009 1 333
Photographed in the Bromeliad House at the Devonian Botanic Gardens, Devon, Alberta, Canada. I have always loved and grown bromeliads and this is one of my favorites.
Mexican Firecracker (Echeveria setosa)

Mexican Firecracker (Echeveria setosa)

RHH
14 Aug 2009 1 1 397
Photographed in the Cactus and Succulent House at the Devonian Botanic Gardens, Devon, Alberta, Canada.
Gasteria bicolor var. bicolor

Gasteria bicolor var. bicolor

RHH
24 Sep 2009 1 220
Gasteria bicolor var. bicolor

Gasteria bicolor var. bicolor

RHH
24 Sep 2009 1 241
"Faith is like a lily lifted high and white"

"Faith is like a lily lifted high and white"

RHH
28 Sep 2009 1 222
Photographed at the Devonian Botanic Gardens in Devon, Alberta, Canada.
Haworthia cymbiformis cuspidata

Haworthia cymbiformis cuspidata

RHH
25 Sep 2009 1 272
This was photographed at the Devonian Botanic Gardens in Devon, Alberta, Canada and was identified there as Haworthia resendeana, but does not seem to fit the description of that species. Identified or not, the colors and forms of these succulents fascinate me. Thanks, Succulentisima, for the correct id.
Echeveria haagai

Echeveria haagai

RHH
26 Sep 2009 1 276
Another picture showing some of the gorgeous forms and colors of the cacti and succulents in the Devonian Botanic Gardens, Devon, Alberta, Canada.
"Tis better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perked up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow." Shakespeare

"Tis better to be lowly born, and range with humbl…

RHH
14 Oct 2009 1 237
A peony photographed in the Japanese garden at the Devonian Botanic Gardens, Devon, Alberta, Canada. The quoation is from Shakespeare's King Henry VIII.