If you visit San Diego, California, please do spend a day in the Balboa park. There are many things to see and do here. Many museums, many gardens and of course the art village.
Above is the botanical building..built in 1915-16 and supposed to be one of the largest lathe structures in the world. It has a lovely lily pond in front and the building is much wider than this photo shows! It was full of the most beautiful, colorful flowers, berries and plants. I was amazed to see that ferns grow to such large sizes on walls with limited water and soil.
Above is the doom-roof from inside. It's all wood and the plants have crept out between the lathes.
above are ferns or some plants growing on barks of trees inside this building
above is a fern I think--it's growing with hardly any soil, on the WALL above the ground. It's huge and I am curious where it gets it's sustenance to grow into such a big thing.
Above is one of the many orchids I saw in this building.
I loved this tightly curled thing...it's almost like a worm, which has curled up for safety!
This is another fern or plant, growing on a tree. It's brother is shown in one of the photos above, growing on a wall.. it's base or roots on a piece of wood on the wall.
This too is a plant, growing on a tree trunk I think
This beauty is growing on a damn wall! Where does it get it's nutrition from? Cement? Paint? I am awed by this phenomenon! I now accept that people who fast for 40 days and survive are really fasting and not cheating as I previously thought!
Cactus. Cactus. Where do you get your food from?
Believe you me, these leaves are huge and more than 2 feet wide and 2.5 feet wide.
Below are two of the several cactus or California state plants I think.
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