A visit to the Botanical Gardens

From April 19,2010

Christchurch is known as the Garden City. I have spent a lot of my time visiting it’s libraries and archives. So when some friends showed up from Ft. Collins, Jack went fishing with Joe Goodell and I took Kathy to the Christchurch Botanical Gardens. I had never been there. It was a beautiful day, a nice place to view beauty and visit with a good friend. The rose gardens were lovely and I gathered some ideas for an arbor I would like to put in the back yard of our house in Ft. Collins. We went into the green house, donated to the city in 1908. It was old and majestic. They used heated water through pipes to keep the building warm for the tropical plants. Then out the back door we moved into the Begonia house. The woman watering the plants immediately apologized, saying that this is the end of the season and the blooms were small. We just stood there astonished because the flowers were the size of dessert plates. Kathy asked an interesting question, “How do you think Heavenly Father came up with all these beautiful flowers?” What a lovely day at a beautiful place, visiting with a good friend.