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Dave and I decided to welcome the new year with a visit to Strybing Arboretum in Golden Gate Park. The Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum has thousands of varieties of plants from all over the world. We didn’t see any orchids, but we enjoyed some of the other sites of the park.

First, there’s a beautiful Princess Flower against a background of ferns. In the middle, this great Heather shrub is a South African native. On the right, a large bromeliad sports a bright red bloom.

I don’t know what this flower is on the left, but I loved the shape and structure. The aloe in the middle is another fascinating South African native, with a hypnotic spiral growth pattern. On the right, a bed of ferns adorns the base of the new de Young Museum.

A young boy walking near us at a pond thought this was an evil red-eyed duck. I’m not very good at identifying birds, but I think it’s a coot. It could still be evil, though. On the right, 2 park residents warm up in the winter sun.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, January 8th, 2009 at 4:06 pm and is filed under Botanical Gardens, General Gardening, Photos.

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