Friday Orchids

Brilliant and beautiful hybrid orchids at the Queen Sirikrit Botanic Gardens.
I am looking forward to May when the native orchids will be in bloom.
Enjoy the weekend.

Grade 6 Field Trip to Queen Sirikrit Botanic Gardens

Yesterday I took the Grade 6 class on a field trip (excursion) to the Botanic Gardens to look at some ecosystems.  It was good to be out of school for the day and the kids seemed to enjoy it.

Only problem was we were on the school bus, with the world's worst suspension and the driver took the long long route. This was especially painful when the kids were full of sugar after lunch at KFC and icecreams.
The photo is at the entrance to banana alley, an avenue of over 200 different types of banana.
The photo below is of Yan (my favorite Russian, vegan, hari krishna student) in front of a red banana flower, explaining to me that there are bananas in Russia at Sochi.  He is hilarious and cute and was running around repeating "banana, banana, banana,,,,,,,,.

A Water Lily for Friday

There was a lovely collection of water lilies at the Queen Sirikrit Botanic Gardens.

Queen Sirikrit Botanic Gardens

 

On Sunday morning as part of my cycle tour, I visited the Queen Sirikrit Botanic Gardens in Mae Rim.  It was a lovely morning to explore the lush, green and extensive gardens.  They are situated on the side of a hill, with walking tracks through different collections of trees, leading to the glass houses at the top of the hill. More labels were needed on the trees, but I did learn a bit. lThere was an interesting palm collection and some gorgeous orchids in the glass houses. 

The Thais seem to love topiary - it's every where- so of course there was a collection of topiary- including these two elephants!