Autumn in Madrid's Botanic Gardens

Yesterday we enjoyed a guided tour that the Botanic Gardens offer at 12h on Sundays in English and learned for example that there is a good substitute for sugar in a plant called STEVIA, that there is a tomato tree (pictured below)

Tomato tree

that our guide's favourite is the árbol de Jupiter which has nice flowers with a beautiful smell and a crazy erratic way of growing and that there exist 30,000 different  kinds of roses in the world. The ones in the garden were not in flower.

Very beautiful dahlias

The garden

Sage in flower...hot lips?

Notice the buxus, border plant also known as boxwood
The beautiful flower is amaryllis
6/09/2015