Sunday, July 1, 2018

The Botanical Gardens

 We're certainly going to get us 10,000 steps in today. It was about a mile walk down to the Botanical Gardens and then half a mile walk inside and then another mile back. We passed several nice buildings and the centralstation again. We took a little bit of a detour on our way back and saw a couple of guys playing cricket in a parking lot. The flowers were exceptional and they were geese, people and everything else along the way to see.
No expense was spared

Might as well sit down I'm going to be here a long time

Whoooo are you looking at

Lots of goose droppings in the garden

Dahlia

Peekaboo

Stop and smell the roses

Peony

This is an Old Castle where the University of Helsinki works

A very elaborate flowering system

A burst of yellow

Don't mess with the bees

A Panorama of the entire Gardens

Different Gardens segmented

Beautiful still in work

Another yellow blast

Pretty purple

A very odd fuzzy section in the middle of a normal flower

A russet coloured Daisy

A blast of purple

No judgement but there pansies 

A very interesting inner Circle

The castle on the Hill

Lovely lady

Wheeew, a whole lot of red

Glassed in growing areas

Tea Roses

Dianthus

The top of this plant had spines and spikes and the flowers are at the bottom. The top part must be protecting the bottom flowers

Possibly poppies

A great day in Helsinki

The king and queen with a castle in the background

Yummy

A bright orange Rose

The pretty pink Rose

The gorgeous smell coming off of this bush was intoxicating

Even the trees had buds

Very pretty

One of nature's wonders

The flags along the side of centralstation

Two or four giant statues in front of Central Station