Thematic Photographic 242: Vegetative Melbourne

Carmi's latest theme suits me. I've just come back from a holiday in Melbourne, Australia,
where I found lots to photograph in the way of growing things. 

Early morning light showed off the trees in the Treasury Gardens beautifully:

I love the Conservatory in the Fitzroy Gardens -
there are always wonderful displays (and it's warm!)

Nearby, Captain Cook's cottage has some spectacular vegetation around it.
There's a statue of the old explorer himself, keeping watch:

On my walkabouts I saw many of Melbourne's old terraced houses:

Along the banks of the Yarra River the trees are beginning to change colour:

Lastly - the produce in the organic hall at the Queen Victoria market
is so fresh that it's practically still growing:

For other people's vegetative musings go here.

“Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.”
~William MacNeile Dixon