Denver Botanical Gardens I've never liked getting flowers; chocolates, definitely. Flowers...eh, just doesn't feel right. It seems to me like flowers should be something you go to; not something brought to you. A garden should be something you nourish and add to - not take from. Of course there are always exceptions, but this is my general opinion. So on a day when rain was in the forecast and I had a new lens to test out (the first one I ever researched and bought on my own - very exciting for me!) I headed into Denver to the Botanical Gardens. Even in the winter when many of the outdoor areas were seemingly dead and the colors were mostly muted and brown, beauty and inspiration planted through the gardens and into me.