Sep 9th, 2011

Red is the Color

by Albert Brian Vick  Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator 

Each of the last two posts have featured the color red. It just struck me that red is one of the colors of Autumn, so let’s follow that theme. Here are a few images from this week at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden.

This looks a little medieval, but it's an effort to preserve the seeds from a special hybrid magnolia.

This looks a little medieval, but it's an effort to preserve the seeds from a special hybrid magnolia.

Not a Magnolia, but the largest, reddest flower I've seen all year.

Not a Magnolia, but the largest, reddest flower I've seen all year.

Earth tones, to relax the eyes after the previous image.

Earth tones, to relax the eyes after the previous image.

Jonah Holland is Digital Content Manager at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, where she has worked for 14 years overseeing social media, the blog, and the website. She is also a mom, yogi, open water swimmer, gardener, and seeker. She's been known to go for a walk in the Garden and come back with hundreds of plant photos, completely inspired to write her next blog post.

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