Visiting the Atlanta Botanical Garden Part 2

On Monday I shared Part 1 of our visit to the Atlanta Botanical Garden. Today I'm going to share the orchid house and the rest of the Alice's Wonderland exhibit! 

It's always interesting checking out the orchids at a botanical garden; it's amazing how many varieties there are! And the Alice's Wonderland sculptures were so fun! 

Visiting the Atlanta Botanical Garden Part 1

At the end of August me and my mom decided to take a short trip down to Atlanta. There was two different events going on that I had wanted to go to, and it was my mom's birthday, so we figured it was the perfect time for a quick trip! We have driven through Atlanta, but had never been to Atlanta, so we were interested in checking it out.

The first thing I wanted to go to was the Alice's Wonderland exhibit at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. Both my mom and I enjoy visiting botanical gardens and miss visiting the Norfolk Botanical Garden.

There really wasn't too much in bloom this time of year but there was still plenty to look at. I had just a little too many pictures to put into one post, so I just decided to make two shorter posts, so I'll share the rest of our visit on Wednesday!

We visited the gardens on a Sunday in the late afternoon so the weather wasn't too bad. We had been having a miserably hot and humid summer, so I had wanted to wait until after the sun had started to go down a little bit before we visited. It was hot but not unbearable. And the garden had a fair amount of people but wasn't crowded, which was nice. 

We had never seen garden sculptures before (like the Earth Goddess and the Alice exhibits) so those were very interesting to see! They're made of steel framing and annuals.

Do you enjoy visiting botanical gardens?

Norfolk Botanical Garden Rose Garden

Back in May my mom and I visited the botanical garden and were surprised to see that all of the roses were blooming! We had just been the previous week and none of them were ready, so it was a very nice surprised to see so many of them in bloom! 

I wasn't expecting to see so many roses, so I didn't have my camera on my, just my phone, but fortunately my phone takes great pictures so I was able to get quite a few nice pictures! 

The roses weren't super fragrant, but every once in a while you would catch a whiff of them and it smelled so nice. Floral scents can be kind of overpowering and strong, but roses just always smell so pleasant!

We were surprised at just how many different varieties of roses there are! Even ones that looked similar in color or size had different names.  It was even amazing how many different shades of red roses there were! From deep blood reds to bright, almost neon reds, there was quite an array!

I always like the ones that are multi-colored, like the one below a few images that is pink and yellow/peach. I also liked the one that was kind of a lavender/gray since I had never seen a rose in that color before!

Have you ever visited a rose garden?