Continuing my recent tour of the Chicago Botanic Garden, after taking a stroll through the Sensory Garden, I headed back around the lake to my favorite spot, the English Walled Garden.
Designed by English landscape architect John Brookes MBE, this area has six garden roooms that feature various elements of English garden design. It has recently undergone some restoration work and is really looking magnificent. Of course, there are people working in the Garden all the time, keeping it in tip-top shape. They were busy clearing out growth from between the paving stones on this particular morning and if you look closely you will also see a blue aerial work platform that was being used to trim the tops of the trees in the neighboring allee.
The next stop on the tour is another one of my summertime favorites, the Butterflies and Blooms Exhibit which includes species of butterflies from South America, Asia, Africa and North America. Hundreds of these little gems were fluttering about the enclosure and many more made it easy to capture them with the camera as they rested on plants and flowers, although the giant Atlas Moth wasn't quite so easy to spot, hidden tantalizingly from full view inside a shrub.
There is still a lot more to see in the Chicago Botanic Garden so I'll return there at a later date to continue the tour. In the meantime, a future post will include some recent pictures from the Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison, Wisconsin.
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