Sunday, September 18, 2011

A Lazy Summer Afternoon at Edwards Garden

Stokes Aster, Stokesia laevis 'Color Wheel'




Caryopteris or Blue Mist Shrub


Dahlia



Coleus

Coleus


Verbena bonariensis 'Lollipop'






 Japanese Anemone


Today, I am linking to Lisa Gordon's Creative Exchange. To see tother beautiful photography, please click the link: The Creative Exchange

30 comments:

  1. What a lovely place to spend the day! So much color and such a relaxing atmosphere. I love all the tall trees!

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  2. What I wouldn´t do for a lazy summer afternoon!!! Your pictures are lovely. Here in Sweden autumn is coming rapidly.

    Åsa

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  3. Wow, gorgeous surroundings - looove the flowers! :-)

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  4. Jennifer girl those trees totally WOWED me .. I am a tree hugger and those are fantastic : )
    All of the plants look wonderful .. you took amazing shots of them : )
    I love your header picture! Nothing like mums to say Autumn is coming : )
    Joy

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  5. Lovely photos! I really like the willow tree. So big yet so soft.

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  6. This looks like an absolutely beautiful place. Is it a public park with great gardens, or a designated botanical garden, or something in between? Though I guess what it is labled does not matter considering how lovely it is.

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  7. A lovely walk in the sunshine . Beautiful photos !

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  8. Awwwww, simply delightful! Thanks for sharing all this gorgeousness! :)

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  9. Looks like a beautiful place to visit! All the flowers and trees looks so inviting!

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  10. What a lovely garden to visit. So many beautiful blooms in it and the Weeping Willow is so pretty. Beautiful shots. Have a great week.

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  11. What a a wonderful tour; so glad you captured the beauty and took us along. And thanks for your kind comment.

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  12. Thanks for your comments everyone.

    Les, Edwards Gardens is located in Toronto and is a public garden adjacent to the Toronto Botanical Gardens. It is a beautiful place, well worth a visit if you are in the city. Sadly, three dogs are not allowed in this garden.

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  13. I keep saying I want a weeping willow in our yard and these pictures just make me want it more. The bench beneath the tree is so picturesque to me.

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  14. What a beautiful place! Everything looks so green, lush, and colorful. Love those magnificent trees, too!

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  15. Your photos are wonderful.

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  16. I feel like I've just walked through the garden too after seeing all your lovely pictures. I particularly like your captures of the blue mist, the pink dahlia and the shot just above that pink dahlia with all the colours filling the frame.

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  17. That looks like a beautiful place to visit and those trees are wonderful.

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  18. Wow these is my kind of place I will never get tired wondering here appreciating the beauty of nature.

    Creative Exchange

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  19. What beautiful photographs these are, and you have captured such wonderful light in each one. I especially love the dahlia!

    Thank you so much for sharing this at The Creative Exchange.

    Have a wonderful evening!

    lisa.

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  20. What a wonderful way to spend an afternoon, I know I had a great time just looking through the photos. Thank you also for the kind comments on my blog, I really appreciated your visit!

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  21. What a feast for the eyes. Love seeing all the lovely colors in the garden.

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  22. I love what you captured! Beautiful photos!

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  23. Those masses of colorful flowers among the weeping willow trees are just gorgeous!

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  24. That weeping willow is spectacular! It makes the youngster (25 years old) in my own garden pale in comparison. It must be very old judging by the huge girth of the trunk. Gorgeous closeups of the many different and shrubs flowers and the planted up beds are so colourful and full of beautiful specimens! What a wonderful place to have spent a lazy, summer's afternoon! They must employ vast teams of gardeners to keep everything so well maintained! I love that blue mist shrub! What a beauty. I've never seen it before.

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  25. Hello jennifer...Wonderful photos of the garden Il is very beautiful. What a lovely garden to visit.
    Good day jocelyne

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  26. What a beautiful place! I love your photography... you got some stunning shots!

    Thanks for coming by my humble blog. :-) xo

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  27. What a beautiful place, with so many bright tropical colors. Love the dreamy pictures of the Weeping Willows.

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  28. Hi again Jennifer, thanks very much for popping over and leaving lovely comment on my blog. I've been flicking through some of your pages and you do some lovely pictures.
    Also is Rusty a wee Sheltie, when I was younger (much younger)and living with my parents we had a sheltie and she looks a lot like your Rusty.

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  29. Very disappointed that I was told to leave because I brought my therapy dog with me to visit this park. Dogs banned from parks? Next they will be banning naughty children who might trample one of the flower beds. A man was smoking & threw his cigarette butt into the garden. But let’s ban dogs because god forbid they might what bark? Pee? Poop? Come on!

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    1. I can't speak for the TBG, but I am guessing that they view themselves as a "botanical garden" and not as a "park". I think they'd take the view that there are plenty of parks in Toronto. They see there mandate as plants.
      I can understand your disappointment though. I have often wished I could take my dogs with me and stroll around the gardens. It's a beautiful place.

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