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Powell Gardens
Powell Gardens is a 915-acre botanical garden located in Kingsville, Missouri. It features 6,000 varieties of plants, with 225,000 plants in seasonal displays. The garden dates to 1948, when the land was purchased by George E. Powell, Sr. Since then, the site has been a dairy farm, a Boy Scout camp, an agricultural and natural resource center, and, since 1988, a botanical garden.
Viceroy butterfly.
Grasshopper.
Flowers in garden.
Silvery Checkerspot butterfly on leaf.
Tawny Emperor butterfly on leaf.
Lilypads and assorted water plants in lake.
 
Hackberry Emperor butterfly on rudbeckia; Gray Hairstreak butterfly on purple coneflower.
Grasshopper hugging an Asiastic Lily sign.
Orange zinnia.
Widow Skimmer dragonfly.
Powell Gardens lake.
Wasp on flower.
White orchids. They remind me of baby birds squawking for food.
Mossy stone path.
Grass blowing in the breeze.
 
Canna leaves; white orchid.
Ornamental pepper plant.
Chrysanthemum
Cotton plant.
Peleides Blue Morpho butterfly.
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