Trip to the Botanical Gardens

On Thursday Sister Flohr loaded all of the same group that went to the beach into their van while her husband worked in the Temple and she took us to the Guatemala City Botanical Gardens.  They must have been beautiful in their day.  They were built/planted in the 1970's and although there are gardeners and the plants are beautiful much of the walkway and display is worn and needs love and attention.  I'll include some of the pictures I took. 

Sister Flohr called this a banana fern because the leaves look like little bananas. 

 A good sized tree.  I asked Mike to give us a proportion.

 Some plants will find almost anywhere to bloom again!

 I was surprised by the huge variety of cactus.

There is beautiful color all year round all around the city.