Cherry blossom season is ending …

Flowering crab

… but crab apple season is just starting.

More pictures from yesterday’s trip to Botanica below the fold.

Celandine

Monocot?

Allegedly "art"

Near the south entrance of the “Shakespeare garden,” there is a series of rusty steel plates, each with a quote from the plays and a barely-discernable design punched through it. These are probably the ugliest publicly-displayed “art” in Wichita, which is saying something.

Flowering almond

Tulips

Pulmonaria


Flowering crabs at Botanica in Wichita