{"id":918,"date":"2011-08-29T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=918"},"modified":"2014-06-15T04:58:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:58:29","slug":"more-of-botanica-the-gardens-of-wichita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=918","title":{"rendered":"More of Botanica, the Gardens of Wichita"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(I know that I’m not supposed to photograph an even number of anything, but which of these would you cut out?) (It’s a rhetorical question, ok?)<\/span><\/p>\n

I visited Botanica<\/span><\/b><\/a> in Wichita, Kansas last week. It’s a great botanical garden.<\/p>\n

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It’s got flower of course, trees, shrubs, lots of volunteers, shady spots, sunny spots.<\/p>\n

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It was kind of quiet on a weekday, with school starting and everything.<\/p>\n

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(Gaillardia, “Punch Bowl”, I always thought Gaillardia was a bad tropical disease.)<\/span><\/p>\n

I love the flowers, I only noted a couple though. As I’ve said previously I can hardly tell a rose from an iris. Yes, I know, that is bad of me.<\/p>\n

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Lots of sculptures both contemporary and domestic in mood and more formal.<\/p>\n

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It had the most high tech sundial I’ve ever seen, placed in a well shaded spot of course.<\/p>\n

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It had lots of water features. That was appreciated on a day when it was well over 100F.<\/p>\n

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I loved the statues scattered through the gardens.<\/p>\n

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Their new children’s garden has been open only a month. It is made for kids to climb, sit, stand, touch, feel, all that stuff. Everything except run. Why is that nobody wants kids to run anymore?<\/p>\n

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It was fun. I talked to one of the volunteers, they miss the kids since school started. They love having the kids.<\/p>\n

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Its very colorful and educational. They have little boxes with books that explain lots of things if the kids are interested at all.<\/p>\n

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Check out Botanica if you are ever in Wichita, Kansas.<\/p>\n

Check out the new Our World<\/b><\/span><\/a> <\/span>meme. Thanks Sandy and Sylvia for starting it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(I know that I’m not supposed to photograph an even number of anything, but which of these would you cut out?) (It’s a rhetorical question, ok?) I visited Botanica in Wichita, Kansas last week. It’s a great botanical garden. It’s got flower of course, trees, shrubs, lots of volunteers, shady spots, sunny spots. It was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}