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What’s your favorite thing to photograph? Mine is flora and fauna. Especially flora.
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That’s why the US Botanic Garden is my favorite place to visit in Washington, DC.
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I can spend hours in the gardens marveling at the tiny differences and details between the plants.
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As much as I love the orchid room and the carnivorous plants, the succulents and the medicinal plants… I find myself favoring the simple delicate shape of ferns.
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The gardens are a magical retreat of greenery and warmth in the middle of busy, stressful, DC.
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And you can lose yourself in the never ending patterns.
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No matter the season you can always find lush, green, nature here. You can be kissed by the mist and enveloped in a tropical warmth. Even if the trees outside are hibernating, the ones here are thriving.
I love to retreat here when I’m craving plant photography.
Where do you retreat to?
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Oh Jenny. Wow. These are absolutely gorgeous images. I can really feel the way you enjoy nature from the way you photograph it.
Beautiful images! As it so happens, I’ll be visiting a friend in DC next month, and she suggested we visit the Botanical Gardens. Glad to have had a preview through your post and hope we’ll make it there.
Gorgeous! Gorgeous! I love retreating to the Baltimore botanic garden, https://rawlingsconservatory.org. It’s not nearly as extensive as this one, but it definitely nourishes me every time I visit. Love the lovely moodiness of your work so much!