I'm not much of a photographer myself, but have taken some beautiful shots of the Fort Worth Botanical Garden Japanese Gardens. They take such great care of everything there, it is beautiful at all seasons.

The San Antonio Botanical Garden has some of the most unusual varieties of flowering vines I have ever seen. And the park is so big, you almost need a couple days to really appreciate it all.

I was recently in Hawaii on the big island and visited their Botanical Garden as well over on the Hilo side. Overall, I found it to be a little disappointing, since everything grows in Hawaii (except maybe ice worms) and I expected to see some really spectacular plants and views. But it was a mostly wild and untamed area (for which they charged us $14 each) to see from a car window. I did get a few nice shots of the tropical plants, but everything was so "untended" and "uncared-for" in appearance, it actually paled next to some of the front yards of private homes that we drove past to get there.

Corpus Christie had better, larger and more well-tended Botanic Gardens, though not nearly as lush, as Hawaii. And they had a rose garden that had some spectacular specimens. Unfortunatley they were'nt particulary artfully arranged, but I never saw such huge, healthy roses. Cheryl