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1. BROOK_150911_145.JPG: Tadpoles
2. BROOK_150911_147.JPG: Crayfish
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4. BROOK_150911_180.JPG: Vision for the Future
5. BROOK_150911_184.JPG: Brookside Gardens: Brookside Gardens is an extraordinary and inspiring cultivated landscape. Through beautifully designed gardens, diverse learning opportunities, and an engaging staff, we motivate our visitors to take action in their own lives and landscapes to appreciate and care for the plants around them. We are confident that, as we move forward with our Master Plan, we will continue to fulfill our mission with improved and diversified offerings for all of our visitors. As we embark on this exciting journey to realize the Master Plan, we hope you will be inspired to join us and become our partners in securing the future of the Gardens. The Master Plan has a phased approach, as illustrated to the right. At each phase, we must raise the funds to pay for garden amenities and plants, which of course are integral to the final design of the Gardens. With your generous support, Brookside Gardens will achieve its full potential as a world-class public garden and key element of the award winning Montgomery County Parks. For more information about gift opportunities, please contact Ellen Bennett at 301-962-1402 or ellen.bennett@montgomeryparks.org .
6. BROOK_151103_126.JPG: Trial Garden: The first Trial Garden was a temporarily display that tested new varieties of vegetables and annual plants for use in home landscapes. The permanent Trial Garden (pictured far right after completion) continues with this mission, but with more emphasis on annual plants than on edibles. The fountain bed depicted in the photo to the right was removed after it began to crumble. It was replaced by the current sundial bed; this new design softened the original Trial Garden design by replacing a very hard feature with more plant material. During its early years, Brookside Gardens accepted plant donations from local citizens -- often trees that had outgrown their home landscapes. The large Norway spruce (Picea abies) to your right above the Trial Garden was donated by a neighbor who had used it as a Christmas tree in his home. The dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) located above the Rose Garden is another tree donated by a citizen after it became too large for its intended landscape. These two trees and others like them remind us of the surrounding community's strong link to and support of the Gardens.
7. BROOK_151103_285.JPG: Welcome to Brookside Gardens North Conservatory: What is a Conservatory? It is a building used to protect plants or animals from cold temperatures or other adverse conditions so they can live and grow in places beyond their native habitat. The North Conservatory was part of the original design for Brookside Gardens when it opened in 1969. The building was a focal point and unique feature within the garden. The North Conservatory's tall grass roof rises 25 feet at its peak, which allows plants to grow to large sizes. The heating and cooling systems give visitors the opportunity to enjoy lush, colorful surroundings at any time of the year. Many of the North Conservatory's plants are planted in the ground permanently, or until they outgrow their location. Maintenance is performed regularly to manage the height and size of the plants and prevent them from reaching the roof or crowding their neighbors. The permanent plants go through phases of growth and flowering and rest, creating a display that varies throughout the year. One third of the space in the North Conservatory is used for a series of four temporary displays each year. The Spring Display begins in January and the Summer Display opens in late April. Early October brings the Autumn Chrysanthemum Display and the Winter Display runs from late November until January, when the Spring Display returns. The seasons in the Conservatory are always slightly ahead of the calendar and visiting the Conservatory in winter is like a quick trip to the tropics, in every season the plant displays in the Conservatory emphasize the variety, versatility, beauty and interesting features of plants from around the world.
Wikipedia Description: Brookside Gardens
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Brookside Gardens (50 acres) are public gardens located within Wheaton Regional Park, at 1800 Glenallan Avenue, Wheaton, Maryland. The gardens themselves are open daily without charge. However, certain annual events there are held that may charge a nominal fee.

Major features of the garden are as follows:

* Aquatic Garden – water-loving plants with two ponds and gazebo.
* Azalea Garden – over 300 varieties of azaleas represented by 2,000 plants. Also rhododendrons, witchhazels, hollies, Japanese andromeda, sweet-box, skimmia, and shade-tolerant perennials.
* Butterfly Garden – Seasonal in summer only. Admission fee.
* Children’s “Fairy Folk” Garden
* Conservatories – seasonal displays and special exhibits. The surrounding garden contains a collection of unusual conifers and groundcovers.
* Fragrance Garden
* Gude Garden – a Japanese-style landscape with bamboo, beech, unusual conifers, dogwood, and groundcovers, as well as an island teahouse overlooking the ponds.
* Maple Terrace – raised beds within a planting of ‘Suminagashi’ Japanese maples.
* Nature center – with exhibits on local wildlife. Parking lot has a separate entrance.
* Perennial Garden – wisterias, roses, Jasmine stephanense, buddleia, and Prunus x cistena, allium, geranium, sedum, panicum, lespedeza, calamagrostis, anemones, asters, acanthus, and agastache, etc.
* Reflection Terrace – a memorial to the ten individuals killed in October, 2002 by the Washington snipers.
* Rock Garden – spring flowering bulbs with grasses and conifers.
* Rose Garden – all types of roses, including hybrid tea, rugosa hybrids, grandiflora, English, miniature, floribunda, shrub, groundcover, polyantha, climber, Gallica, hybrid musk, and the garden rose.
* Trial Garden – spring flowering bulbs, then summer displays of new and unusual plant varieties,.
* Woodland Walk – forested wetland with bald cypress, tulip poplar, spicebush, and groundcover of mayapple, fern, and skunk cabbage. A native plant garden includes approximately 124 species and cultivars of Maryland native plants.
* Yew Garden – a garden room within yew hedges.

In the Conservatories:

Once you’re through the double doors of the enclosed conservatories at Brookside Gardens, you immediately step into a nature lover’s delight from which you won’t want to escape. It’s an awesome display of all things natural, and a treat and delight for anyone who visits. The conservatories reopen January 1st, for show changes, but soon after, all of the vivid colors of spring greet us once again. Orchids, Camellias, Jasmine and a variety of bulbs and flowering plants will be the theme and the setting from January to February. A small glimpse into spring drawing near is a warm and inviting time of a season in bloom, as a fresh fragrance in the air almost seems to follow you as you make your way through. The conservatory whispers a dawn of a new beginning that will have you coming back for more.

Brookside Gardes is part of the Montgomery County Parks.
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2015 photos: I retired from the US Census Bureau in god-forsaken Suitland, Maryland on my 58th birthday in May. Yee ha! Trips this year: a quick trip to Florida. two Civil War Trust conferences (Raleigh, NC and Richmond, VA), and my 10th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including Los Angeles). Ego Strokes: Carolyn Cerbin used a Kevin Costner photo in her USA Today article. Miss DC pictures were used a few times in the Washington Post. Equipment this year: I mostly used my Fuji XS-1 camera but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000. Number of photos taken this year: just over 550,000.
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