One of my favorite parts of my recent trip to Vienna was the free botanical garden, next to the Belvedere Palace and grounds. Here are a few highlights.
You can walk into the bamboo grove on boardwalks. So, apparently, can the bamboo.
Huge lotus blossoms:
A saguaro and California poppies to make me feel at home. In German, the saguaro is called "Riesenkaktus." Because my German is soooo great, I looked at the sign and thought, "Travelling Cactus?" Wouldn't that be a more appropriate name for jumping cholla or something?
Turns out I was confusing "riesen" with "reisen." A saguaro is not a traveling cactus, but a giant cactus. Makes more sense but isn't as charming.
An interesting-looking wollemi pine, which was thought to be extinct until a ranger found one in a national park in Australia in 1994!
