The last morning of our trip, we went to Lotusland. Lotusland is an absolutely incredible garden. Ganna Walska, a mediocre opera singer and incredibly beautiful woman, built it with the money of the men who loved her. This isn’t just a garden. It’s art. We only got to spend a few hours there. I could have spent a few weeks. The entire garden is arranged into a series of smaller gardens, often hidden by large mass plantings, so walking into each one is a surprise.

She chose plants from almost everywhere in the world and she chose some of the most interesting she could find. She loved the bizarre and oddly textured. We all got in trouble for stepping off of the paths.

We took hundreds of pictures here, so I’m going to post only about a few gardens at a time.

The visitor’s center, where the tour starts, is surrounded by an Australian garden with some pretty bizarre plants. I was very impressed with the flower spikes of this grass.

The main road through the garden has the largest mass succulent planting I’ve ever seen.

Tomorrow, the Japanese Garden!  All the posts about spring break are found here.