Electing To Get Out - Suncheon Bay National Garden

National election day =
no work for Abe and no school for the kids!
We elected to run over to Suncheon Bay National Garden in South Joella. Although it was a public place, it was still outside and not very busy so we had plenty of social distance. Since Art & Abe work together and Linda & I shop together we decided it was OK to get out together.

The National Garden is 1.12 km of natural habitat turned into a conservation area full of trees and flowers. So once again, here is a post full of trees and flowers.

You see these little fuchsia flowers a lot of places. They are very bright and pretty.

The red photenia and yellow photenia were pretty juxtaposed against each other.

Almost bluebonnets, but in lots of pretty colors.

These tulips are in front of a very large bird nest with eggs.

The nest and eggs belong to this crane on the hill made of bushes. Suncheon is called 'a city of a thousand cranes' because hooded cranes spend the winter months here. Now that the Suncheon Bay Wetland Reserve has been built, over 1400 hooded cranes flock to the wetlands and nearby rice paddies during the winter.

Tulips are one of my favorite flowers. This area represents the Netherlands. Other areas in the World Garden Zone consists of gardens from 11 countries including Germany, Japan, Spain, China, Taiwan, and France, to name a few.

This area represents a Korean traditional garden.

The entry to a Nobleman's Garden of a palace.

This is Manwolmun Gate, which is designed to look like a landscape painting through the round gate to the Nobleman's Garden from the back garden.

This area is called the Garden of A Virtuous Man, representing the garden of an old scholar who devoted himself to studies in nature.

Cranes amongst the azaleas on the way up the hill.

We brought my little red wagon that I use to carry groceries upstairs with plans to pull Daisy around. We were glad to find a wheelchair rental; much easier and much more comfortable than a wagon.

Lijee is overlooking the grassland gardens from the Tree Garden Observation Deck.

The Royal Azalea Garden from the top.

There are over 100 species of of azalea trees in the garden. Who knew there were that may different types of azaleas? They are everywhere in Korea this time of year and are so pretty.

The Wildfowl and Wetland Trust is known to protect wetlands and wild birds.

Here is a closer shot of that piece of art.

The Suncheon Weave is a series of paper pieces that dates back to 1990 and consists of 7,000 kilos of layered newspaper woven amongst living and dead trees.

I'm a little teapot, short and stout...

Dream Bridge, made from old shipping containers, connects the east and west gardens. The outer walls of the bridge are made of tiny tiles that are Hangul letters.

The inner halls are comprised of individual tiles that students drew their hopes and aspirations, aka Dream Bridge. Over 140,000 students from 16 different countries submitted their work.

Zekers took a little swing.

Here is the cozy French chalet. It's hard to tell from this pic, but that's a big bottle of wine being poured into wine glasses behind those flowers.

The view from the top of the chalet reminded me of the rose gardens at the Ft. Worth Botanic Garden.

I just thought I was taking a picture of the cute flowers on top of a wooden stand. Later I realized they were on top of trash cans. Prettiest trash cans ever.

Suncheon Lake Garden is designed to represent the city. The lake is city center, The long deck to the hill in the center symbolizes Dongcheon Stream, and the hills all around represent the nearby mountains.

We made it to the center of a maze.

Hold on Zeke, we're coming for you!

One could say Daisy is up the creek without a paddle, but she has crutches, if that makes a difference.

Linda was happy to look on, but may have been a bit crabby to fall in.

The weather was great for a picnic lunch before we headed home.

[April 15]