The Conservatory of Flowers is located in a late-19th-century building in Golden Gate Park, and is full of wonderful and fascinating plants. The building apparently has been quite resistant to earthquakes, except that of course it’s covered in glass, and that glass has to be replaced from time to time. (Still, this is less maintenance than some historic buildings require!) It re-opened a few years ago after a major renovation.
I took so many photos when Dad and I visited last week that I’m going to split them up into several posts.
As you can see, the Conservatory is a beautiful building with lovely grounds – and that’s without the summer planting being in place (or so I infer, from the strips of empty dirt amongst the grass):
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The whole interior of the buildings is used for exhibits, by the way. I presume they store maintenance equipment elsewhere nearby.
There are orchids throughout the building, in different rooms with different temperatures and climates, and many of them were blooming:
There are many other plants, too, some of them more exotic-looking than others. I don’t generally expect spiny-looking plants like this one to be so colorful:
I don’t know what that last plant is, though.
