How Many Ways Can You Design Frida Kahlo?

Well apparently San Antonio Botanical Gardens (TX) has dedicated a whole walkway and exhibit for  this lovely artist.  Magdalena Carmen Frida y Calderon was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and worked inspired by nature and artifacts of Mexico.  

We spent the whole day there with a relative walking through some very lovely and peaceful gardens, but the one I was interested in was a depiction of her Casa Azul (blue house) that she inhabited in Mexico with her lover Diago.  This Frida Kahlo Exhibit warranted her relatives to come at the opening so I knew it would be good.  Here is my favorite part of the exhibit.  They recreated her desk and art supplies that she often used in her home and gardens.  I was so excited to see that she used chalks!  This is the medium that I have been using for a while and it gives me such happiness to use them.  The photo of her and Diago in the corner was the icing on the cake.  

We wondered for hours through this garden, but the walkway where each statue of Frida was uniquely designed was really cool. This was definitely my favorite one. 

This garden is worth the $15 that you pay to get in.  They have many different areas to walk in for families, individuals, and couples.  As a botanist, I am always interested in how culture and nature are interpreted.  These gardens do an excellent example of that.  There were so many different orchids, but this one caught my eye, because it looked like a spiderwort.  We only had a few days her in San Antonio, but this garden was well worth our time.