Tuesday, November 14, 2006

SA Botanical Garden Part 1



Traffic due to highway construction cut a lot of time off our visit Sunday, so after paying the $6/each admission I kind of rushed through the sprawling complex of gardens, sculpture and historic buildings.
These are two of the cone-shaped greenhouses that can be seen above the trees from all over this part of town.

This is a scenic overlook in the middle of the property.

The roof of the main entrance building, the Daniel Sullivan Carriage House, which was built in 1896 and later moved stone by stone from it's original location downtown. It's listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The next post will feature some of the plants etc found within the gardens and greenhouses.

3 comments:

laanba said...

This looks like an interesting place to shoot? Is it new?

laanba said...

Oops... one too many question marks

Keith Alan K said...

Opened in 1980. My first visit, and I didn't get to see it all before it closed for the day. There was an after-hours wedding being setup while we were there. All kinds of cool stuff to see.