Featured Garden - Formal Garden, Assiniboine Park

  

 In mid August, we toured the gardens at the Assiniboine Park in Winnipeg. I've already featured The Butterfly Garden that's in the zoo. Today, it's The Formal Garden.
 I always love driving down this road under a canopy of leaves. If it wasn't for the parked cars...I could have taken a better picture!

From the official site- "Designed by Frederick Todd in 1907, the Formal Garden was part of the original Assiniboine Park design. The shapes of the flower beds are sharply defined and highly geometrical. The garden is symmetrical in two ways: in the arrangement of the flowers in the beds and in the arrangement of the beds themselves."

Looking from the road...the entrance to the Formal Garden.

I loved the ornamental grass!

One of the two circles in the garden. 

After walking around the zoo, it was nice to walk barefoot on this lush lawn!

Every plant meticulously planted, evenly spaced....and no weeds!

They must have quite the crew to plant and care for this garden!

It just goes on and on! 

Beautiful!

Now on to my favorite....The English Garden...see you next time!

Featured Garden - Butterfly Garden, Assiniboine Park Zoo

May these butterflies

 bring magic, wonder and joy into your life.

We kept trying to get a picture of the blue butterflies, 

but they didn't stay in one place long!

The entire area is covered in a mesh material to keep the butterflies from escaping. This netting isn't the prettiest backdrop, but that seemed to be where most of the butterflies liked to be...probably to stay out of reach of some kids trying to catch them!

This seemed to be the favorite spot for some of the butterflies....

.....mmmm yummy!

Danica in front of the Chrysalis cabinet
This was one of her favorite parts of the zoo.

The butterflies were nice to see, but I was there for the Flowers!

It was a busy day, with lots of others touring the garden.

Found these two relaxing on a bench!

..........and being silly!

Danica's favorite- Cherry Pie Plant

We hope you enjoyed our tour of the Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden!
Our next tour will be the Formal Garden in the Assiniboine Park.

  The seasonal exhibit is stocked in early summer with a variety of butterfly species. The garden is landscaped with flowering plants to support the butterflies through their entire life cycle. You can read more Here.

Featured Garden- Carberry Daylily Park

We toured this garden in early August, but had already missed a lot of the blooms. It was sunny, and not the best for taking pictures, but it was a beautiful day, and we enjoyed our time there. This is the garden that my dad donated many Day Lilies to. I'm not sure which ones were his, but they were all beautiful The garden is a lovely welcome as you drive into Carberry...which also happens to be our home town, though we haven't lived there for many years.

The pergolas are a nice feature, and I'm sure they've been the back drop for many wedding pictures

Echinacea, also known as Coneflower. 
My dad used to grow fields of these on the farm.
Echinacea has many medicinal properties...and is very pretty!

Liatrus- I love these! We have wild liatrus that grows in our yard.

Purple Bee Balm (Monarda) So many of these are flowers my parents grew...I miss them!

The view from the pergola, looking out across the garden.

I found Big Bird! This was one of my Dad's favorite Day Lilies.

I hope you enjoyed this garden tour. We'll go back again in the spring and take another stroll through this beautiful garden.