Botanic Gardens

Bonaire has a Botanic garden...sort of. A naturalist couple have put together a garden of native plants that have medicinal qualities.  They have trees, bushes, orchids, aloe vera's, cactus and plants that are not marked or identified.  There are no maps of the trails and no tour guides. We were lucky we found our way out of the place.

I think the handmade art and displays were the most interesting part of the garden.  This was a wood piece that is made from roots and branches. One of the displays is a table of bones.  We think they were animal bones. Creepy nevertheless.

 

A wishing well lined with rusted sewing machines was an interesting find. The trails lead you around the grounds that are overgrown but make the spot very cozy and lush. The water features were very interesting.

Since it's an organic garden, they use animal manure for fertilizer.  They also compost.  They had rabbits, ducks, geese, sheep, goats and lambs.  These were two of the new additions to the lamb population.

A bed was one of the displays.  Since they do homeopathic "medicine" at the garden, I suppose this is one of the areas they use for treatment? or maybe its just a day spa kind-a thing? or maybe just some odd bed placed in the trail to confuse visitors?

This sculpture of dolphins and sea shells was at the entrance of the gardens. And, what Caribbean garden would be complete without a  5-foot tall totem pole.