Last weekend we decided to visit the Durban Botanic Gardens. It is situated in the city of Durban, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa. According to Wikipedia... "It is Durban's oldest public institution and Africa's oldest surviving botanical gardens.[1] The gardens cover an area of 15 hectares (37 acres)[2] in a subtropical climate."
On Durban Botanic Garden's website, they quote Prof Donal McCracken as follows; ‘A botanic gardens may delight the eye and the aesthetic senses, satisfy idle curiosity and excite wonder, but the capacity to produce these reactions is of only secondary importance to its basic function: accumulating botanical and horticultural knowledge (research) and disseminating that knowledge (information and education).’
Well, the capacity to be a delight to the eye and aesthetic senses, might be of secondary importance only, but we surely enjoyed the colorful scenery. I would like to share some photos I took of some of the most colorful flowers.
Now don't get me wrong, I love nature and I love being outdoors, but I am no expert when it comes to the names of these flowers.
My daughter shared some interesting information with me though which I will also share with you later in this post.
Ahead of us, I saw quite a few people walking right past this without even taking notice...
But I have to be honest... I was intrigued by the colors...
Close to the center of the gardens, my wife and my daughter sat down on a bench to relax while our grandchildren were playing around.
I decided to carry on walking and get more photos.
I found this plant, kind of hidden among many other plants.
Let's take a closer look...
Sometimes, by just casually walking around, you tend to miss out on a lot of the beauty all around you.
But when you start paying a little more attention, you start noticing the beautiful colors all around you.
We tend to look for the "big stuff", but sometimes you can find the beauty in the smallest detail all around you...
Looking at it from a distance, it's just some small little yellow flowers. But when you come closer, you realize how the detail can create a nice photo...
I liked the prominent white against the deep green in this scene...
Let's take a closer look again.
And talking about white...
Do you remember I told you about the interesting information my daughter shared with me?
When I got back to my family, I showed them the photos on my camera.
When my daughter saw this photo...
...she said to me that it is said that these flowers don't always open up like this one. But when they do, you can know that it is going to rain within the next 24 hours.
Well... these flowers were wide open (as you can see in the photo) and believe me, we had good rain within 24 hours after we left the Durban Botanic Gardens...lol!
My daughter sent me this link if you want to know more information about this plant.
And with that, we come to the end of today's post.
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