San Diego: Balboa Park & the Zoo pics

[thez_yo]

San Diego: Balboa Park & the Zoo pics (DAILUP WARNING!)

With bonus orchid show and sale pics from Balboa Park. Sorry if some of the plant pics are a little blurry..the day started out overcast and using flash photography distorts color a lot in orchids...

Balboa Park--
I went to the conservatory with tropical plants ..

(doing poorly...)

 

[thez_yo]

And the Koi/lily pad ponds out front:

 

[thez_yo]

and then on the path...

Orchid Show and Sale..

 

[thez_yo]

Zoo--
Bunch of animals and bog..

 

[thez_yo]

(mmm...bacon )

hummingbird house..

 

[Exo]

Awesome, I especially like the Dendrobium victoria-reginae.

 

[thez_yo]

...and some random flowers on the walk home:

 

[seedjar]

Wow, that's quite a day you had.
~Joe

 

[Capensis]

Amazing orchids. Quite exotic birds, too.

 

[lizasaur]

Super dial-up warning! LOL!

Your pictures came out great! I'm a bit pouty though that you didn't get closeups of what looks like Sarrs and Neps! But very nice!! Looks like a great time!!

 

[thez_yo]

Awesome, I especially like the Dendrobium victoria-reginae.

Thanks, I don't even know what that orchid is XD.

Wow, that's quite a day you had.
~Joe

Naw, just 3.5 hours

Amazing orchids. Quite exotic birds, too.

Yeah! The Zoo has a lot more to offer, being the famous San Diego Zoo and all, but I didn't have the time to walk through all of it because my feet already hurt and I had to get home to move my helis out of the roasting sun .

Super dial-up warning! LOL!

Your pictures came out great! I'm a bit pouty though that you didn't get closeups of what looks like Sarrs and Neps! But very nice!! Looks like a great time!!

Sorry...fixed that...

The Sarrs and Neps actually looked not so great in Balboa Park. Covered in bugs from how they were growing in, which is why I now don't want to donate my extras to them... The ones at the zoo were doing better, but they were all sorts of regular every day varieties and nothing too special...or any favorites of mine

 

[Exo]

Thanks, I don't even know what that orchid is XD.

Pic #6....

 

[Zhilin]

There was orchid show? I missed it!

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The Sarrs and Neps actually looked not so great in Balboa Park. Covered in bugs from how they were growing in, which is why I now don't want to donate my extras to them... The ones at the zoo were doing better, but they were all sorts of regular every day varieties and nothing too special...or any favorites of mine

Can we denote plants to the park or zoo?

 

[thez_yo]

There was orchid show? I missed it!

the small one that happens monthly..

Can we denote plants to the park or zoo?

i don't know if we can donate plants - i've thought about it before, but haven't researched to see who i need to contact yet.