Garfield Park
We are waiting for a storm to come in. Oh joy. Spring may be here, technically; but the real last-frost-date in this benighted burg is about May 10, or May 15 if you are a global-warming denier, or May 18 if you remember that blizzard back in the seventies. We got crocusses but it's not enough. The only thing to do is visit the Garfield Park conservatory and soak up the green.
If you would like some green, please help yourself to the pictures below the cut.
View from front, looking over into the fern house: all green.
The fern room, warm and wet
Note the egg mass the white koi is carrying - and here’s the birth control; red-eared sliders.
The desert room, dry, where everyone’s sinuses clear up
Which opens onto the Aroid room – cooler, darker, more humid. This room originally was intended for conifers, but could not be kept cold enough, and was converted to aroids in 1923. The collection was lost in 1994, due to pipes freezing during one of Chicago’s polar vortexes, and is still recovering.
The glass flowers are a remnant of a glorious Chihuly exhibit in 2001. The originals were too fragile for permanent installation, so the Chihuly Studio recreated a heavier, sturdier version.
This opens into the Show Room. Every March there is a beautiful display to remind us that spring will indeed arrive, eventually, in a month or two. Or three.
...it's snowing.
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I have:
two grape vines
a gooseberry
winter jasmine
bulbs for freesia and gladiola that are waiting to be planted
hyacinths, crocusses, and tulips planted
a christmas cactus
an easter cactus
coffee plant
zebra plant
spider plant
gloxinia
mint
a wholeass apple tree
a tiny evergreen
a random cactus that i've had for years it just keeps getting bigger
an unidentified succulent from my in-laws
whatever the fuck Zevran is
another succulent type plant (I think?) that I got last year because it was like. A euro. And it has pretty red on its leaves
ivy
BUT.
I want.
A hydrangea.
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bulbflowerfields in Holland
Its spring, the last crocusses and the first tulips and all the daffodils are flowering now. Thousands of acres in the north of North-Holland are coloring this weeks.
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#spring is here #snowdrops #crocusses #springtime #toronto #nature https://www.instagram.com/p/B9j4k0kpk4x/?igshid=ecc9n8p90ja2
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Orange Kraft der Krokusse by HeikoMonson https://ift.tt/2GpvwEK
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