The topiary garden was fun, but pretty standard.

The main lawn had some very bizarre contrasts – like these huge agaves against a manicured lawn.

Thankfully, we headed back into the shade at this point. I was working on a terrific sunburn. In the shade palm garden, a lot of the plants were fruiting. I haven’t seen many palms and I’ve certainly never seen one fruiting, so I was really excited about this.

The lower bromeliad garden really showed off the epiphytic nature of these guys. Most plantings I’ve seen have them stuck in the ground.