The 12th Annual Flower & Fine Arts Festival was held March 10, 11, and 12 at The St. George Village Botanical Gardens.

This palm lined drive leading to the Botanical Gardens exhibits a European practice of an earlier age.

From outdoors the bonsai were seen getting a little air and light.

Inside the exhibit, flowers and art were in abundance.

A long row of well trained and cared for bonsai.

Orchids in bloom were on display.

Various prize blooms of the St. Croix Hibiscus Club.

A demonstration on the technique and art of bonsai.

Art on display.

A tour of the rainforest at the Gardens had plenty of explanation of the grounds' old use as a plantation and its new use as a conservation museum for plants.

Tour participants being led down the garden path.

A very large palm specimen.

Following the trail.

Looking up at a very tall Royal Palm.

The dappled sunlight squeezes through the dense canopy of leaves.

In the cactus preserve under the clear blue sky.

A flower panacle of the Cannonball Tree.

A path around some of the plantation ruins.

In the distance, a bridge over the Gut (streambed) that runs through the grounds.

One last look....