Trees crawling away!!!

 I think this tree knows what's coming and was getting ready to break for it.  Unfortunately one of the local children could hear its plans and convinced someone to build a smaller fence to keep it from moving.

I'm actually not sure which I find prettier, the flowers, or the buds that haven't yet become flowers.

The bee prefers the buds.

                                         

New day/new pictures

 New wallpaper options:

Punk Lillies

The Rose Garden

 

 

 

 The open butterfly

 

Rodents exercising

A worker bee

What the flowers look like without the bee.

The master of the duck's domain.

More from the Botanic Garden in June

Yesterday was lovely.  Today is also lovely.  Today I am officially on vacation.  I went back to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and wandered around.

This is a Japanese Maple behind a White Enkiantrus tree.

 

 I think these irises envy the tree that can brush the water like that with its leaves.
When the irises get hot, they can't dip into the water like that.

Trees fighting for light by the Japanese Pond.

 Here's an older tree, hunched over, searching for light.

A Caucasian Fir trying to sweep the needles away.

 

Roses chatting like neighbors, gossiping about other flowers in the garden.

Leaves growing from the bottom of the tree;  is that because it's the only way they can get light?

It's a baby Maple Tree!  When it grows big it will give us syrup!

I think this tree just decided to grow!

 As did a new pine (I pushed it;  it's not just a branch that's fallen off.  It's firmly attached to the ground.)

 

 

Here's another baby tree, but this one with an older sibling.

We're in Brooklyn, plants grow wherever they can.

The Brooklyn Botanic Garden in June

 The trees are marching.

I think they heard about the ferns at the Berkshire Botanic Garden and thought they should get in on the act.

What would they do if the ferns got this far down?  The trees must protect themselves.

 Feed me!  I heard this rose squeal.

 What did the rose squeal?  She gave her best Rachel Maddow imitation and said "watch this space!"

Grand Army Plaza Wilderness

 There are two sort of abandoned green spaces as someone approaches Grand Army Plaza from Flatbush Avenue from the west.  It looks really cool inside.

I'm pretty sure that the Parks Department is responsible for it (or somebody is, at any rate), because of this lock.

There are mulberry trees there, but they don't look like they were planted deliberately.

Here's a close up of the roots that make that clear.

This half of the green space has a stature of Alexander Skene