David has a meeting in Richmond tomorrow and so this afternoon we drove down, the weather getting steadily wetter. Disappointing as we planned to visit the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden for its 'Gardenfest of Lights'.
When we arrived it was still raining on and off but we decided to tour the garden anyway, starting with a couple of indoor Christmas trees, one in the education center and the second in the conservatory.
This one had an undersea theme..
In the conservatory the giant tree was created largely from flowers..
In the garden itself, many of the illuminated 'flowers' were created from recycled plastic bottles..
As were the fish..
And the rainbow..
The garden was very well lit with literally thousands of tiny lights..
It was damp but still great to see. Very strange once again to be enjoying Christmas lights when the weather was so warm and you could still hear the cicadas in the trees!
The gardens look lovely and so different from when we visited in September. Can certainly remember the large greenhouse in the background with the fountains in front.
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