Day Trip To The Arboretum | A Hunt For Peonies

Emma was on Summer pause final week, too hence nosotros filled the calendar week amongst local explorations too piffling twenty-four lx minutes catamenia trips. Peony flavour is 1 of my most favorite times of the twelvemonth - the blooms are simply too hence unbelievably royal too heavenly scented, I simply can't instruct enough. So our outset trip was to the local (as inward 45 minutes south...) Overland Park Arboretum & Botanical Gardens (Overland Park, KS) on a hunt for peonies - I wanted Emma to live on able to sense them inward a huge bounty.

We packed a picnic lunch, position on Emma's most peony appropriate dress, drove alllll they agency out at that spot to discover... I had forgotten my wallet. It was inward the swim handbag from the twenty-four lx minutes catamenia before. Admission was solely $3 (for me, gratis for Emma) too all I could scrounge upward was $1.25 inward quarters from my car.

I asked the admissions lady if they would allow me to transportation a banking enterprise jibe for the remaining fee (I fifty-fifty offered to include an extra donation...) if they would allow us to come upward in. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 adult woman close yesteryear that seemed to live on inward accuse (she was on a golf game cart too sporting gardening gear) come upward over too said non to worry - she would pay the remainder of my fee. I realize that a $2 handout is tiny yesteryear most comparison, but it seemed huge at the moment... the divergence betwixt putting my 1-year-old dorsum inward the machine for 45 minutes afterward talking close all of the pretty flowers we'd live on seeing on the agency there!

I never mentioned "who I am" (not that it would've meant anything!) or that I would live on sharing our twenty-four lx minutes catamenia inward the gardens on my blog, but I promised her that I would pay it forward.

We spent a fabulous forenoon at that spot - I allow Emma atomic number 82 the way, which she loves, of course. She ran too roamed all over the gardens smelling flowers, looking at fish too testing the boundaries.

These are my favorite peony - the palest pinkish amongst brilliant yellowish centers. Very chic.

My favorite area, was of course of didactics the peonies...

But the "fishies" were her favorite part.

The gardens are all maintained yesteryear volunteers.

The "Monet Garden" was unbelievable.

We wondered on the mulched paths inward the woods to discovery our picnic spot. While I relish the manicured flowerbeds, I felt most at peace inward the rustic areas similar this 1 yesteryear a stream.