Lily pads, espaliered magnolia and hot peppers!

Just a skip away from the High Museum in Atlanta is the Atlanta Botanical Gardens.

Visit again when the garden expansions will be completed in 2010.

Click on photos for a better view.

Whimsical spewing fountain

Lord Baltimore Hibiscus

Lily pads, also seen at the High Museum in an impressionistic form.

An espaliered magnolia... so unique.

Stargazer lilies...gorgeous to look at.

Mosiac lily pads

a field of pure white petunias

Cosmos