San Diego Botanic Gardens

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 Butterfly Bush

I told all the kid's to pick our their favorite plant. This one WAS Lauren's until she got up close to it and discovered it was a metal sculpture. She has hard feelings.

 Owl's Eyes Cacti

 Owen feel asleep in his stroller, but was still smiles when he awoke!

 

 making friends. :D

 Corpse Flower. It was going to bloom any day.

One of the world's largest and rarest flowering structures, the corpse flower is a pungent plant that blooms rarely and only for a short time. While it is in bloom, the flower emits a strong odor similar to rotting meat or, aptly, a decaying corpse

Pollak wrote on the Chicago Botanic Garden's blog that analyses show that chemically the stench consists of:

• dimethyl trisulfide (also emitted by cooked onions and limburger cheese)
• dimethyl disulfide (which has an odor like garlic)
• trimethylamine (found in rotting fish or ammonia)
• isovaleric acid (which also causes sweaty socks to stink)
• benzyl alcohol (a sweet floral scent found in jasmine and hyacinth)
• phenol (sweet and medicinal, as in Chloraseptic throat spray)
• indole (like mothballs)

GOSH! Too bad we missed it.  They had a table set out in front of it and some ladies sitting there waiting for it to bloom. ;,)

 Dad! Can we PLEASE plant some bamboo!?!

 Banana Grove

 Loved the Succulent Garden and the small Walled Garden.

 Look at the Tree's roots

 James' favorite plant. The tall Cautus

 cool tree house. Owen left us to go explore.