The Royal Botanical Gardens

Melbourne is a big, bustling city…four million people...too big and too diverse to cover in one blog post.  

So we won’t try.  

Instead, we’ll show you pictures from our favorite place in the city…the Royal Botanical Gardens.  

Some of these flowers may look familiar.  Some will be new.   We hope you enjoy them as much as we did.

And we would especially like to thank John and Maureen Ryan…

 …who were more than our hosts in Melbourne.  They shared their family with us, acted as chauffeurs and tour guides, taught us how to speak some Australian, but mostly displayed the hospitality for which Aussies are famous.