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Flowers

This page technically is not ALL about flowers, but it is mostly about flowers. And most of these flowers are at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. Every year we visit, the flowers are at a different stage. This year they were a bit later, and the daffodils were still plentiful.

Yellow daffodils, with a few white ones, are in a broad swath. A building is on the left and a metal abstract sculpture on the right.

There were many other early blooming flowers.

Small white flowers create a base for a few taller blue ones.

A white daffodil is facing us, and some others are indistinct in the background.

A purple pansy has drops of water on it.

Pink and white flowers sit above greenery, and have a blue background.

We visited all the Garden trolls: Roskva, Birk, Gro, Søren, and Lilja.

A large wooden troll looks down on use while holding a tree.

A wooden troll sits in the woods with arms reaching to the ground on each side and legs spread wide.

A plain-faced wooden troll sits and meditates.

A wooden troll with spiky branches for hair seems to be having fun, having kicked up a leg and its arms.

Anne is leaning against the leg of a friendly looking wooden troll that is reading out with a welcoming gesture.

Getting back to the flowers, Hellebore are one of the early flowers, and the Gardens had a wide variety of them.

A pink hellebore flower

A green hellebore flower

A hellebore plant has green leaves and pinkish blossoms.

We are looking up at some pink Hellebore flowers, which face down.

These purple flowers are pretty, and the second picture shows that life can grow in unexpected places. The flower was growing in a small hole in a rock outside of our room at the inn.

Many small clusters of purple flowers have a branch with green leaves in their midst.

Small pink flowers that are growing out of granite rock.

Speaking of growing in unexpected places, the tall pine tree with long needles in the next picture splits into two separate trunks. In the crevice between them, another small tree, which has very short needles and is perhaps a spruce, has taken root and is trying to grow.

In the woods, a tall tree has one large trunk that splits into two separate trunks as you look up the length. In the crevice between them, another tree has taken root and is trying to grow.

Now let's get back to the main attraction, the flowers.

Rhododendron flowers

Rhododendron flowers

a dark pink flower with the stamen very visible.

This is an unusual flower with a tall thick stalk and little yellow flowers facing down, and leaves that look like a mop of hair on the top.

This is an unusual flower with a tall thick stalk and little yellow flowers facing down, and leaves that look like a mop of hair on the top.

This is an unusual flower with a tall thick stalk and orange flowers facing down, and leaves that look like a mop of hair on the top.

Proof that not all of these flowers were found at the Botanical Gardens. This little planter was in downtown Boothbay Harbor.

Anne is crouching on the ground holding her camera on a tripod. In front of her are a couple of planters on a low cement wall.

A couple of planters have pansies in them, and there is a green grass lawn behind them.

Wild white flowers have grown up in a grassy area.

But we did enjoy being in the Botanical Gardens.

A path leads to a little pond that has yellow flowers surrounding it.

Paul sits at the Fairy Table, although the table has fallen off the supporting rock.

These flowers are Sweet William.

This is a lily with white, yellow, and red petals.

This is a close-up picture of a pretty white flower.

No, that is not a yellow flower sprouting out of a purple one. A bumble bee has found some pollen, as has a honeybee.

A bumble bee has its head inside a purple flower. There is a pollen ball visible on its leg.

A honeybee is flying between yellow flowers.

A honeybee is looking for nectar and pollen in a flower.