Today I used a vacation day and my daughter and I took a trip to Rochester, NY to Highland Park. There, we visited the Lamberton Conservatory. This was established in 1911 and completely refurbished in 2008. What a wonderful place to spend a chilly, snowy, gray winter day. There were fruit trees blooming - oh my, what a wonderful scent. I was in heaven! Enjoy my pictures. I don't know the names of all the plants but I hope you can feel what we felt being there.
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| This is a small fish pond, also home to a turtle. Do you notice the snowflakes falling outside? |
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| A banana tree, see the wee bananas? They aren't ones we eat. |
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| Cactus room - as we arrived there was a bus load of 2nd graders leaving. I would be very afraid to have them in this room - lots of dangerous looking spikes! There was a large rat tail cactus that I didn't take a picture of, but it was one of the funkiest plants I've seen. |
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| Put yourselves in our shoes - we climb over a snowbank leaving our car, boots, winter coats, gloves on. We walk into this warm room filled with flowers, color, perfumes. I can see myself living here year round. |
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| I would volunteer to work here in a heartbeat! |
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| This poor fellow had an infestation of bugs and needed to be trimmed back to get rid of them. Kind of like having lice, huh? |
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| This room with Spanish moss cascading from every tree branch was my favorite. |
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| I love this plant, a Shrimp plant. I've never seen it before. I wonder if anyone ever sneaks little pinches of the plants to take home and root? |
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| Impressive Staghorn fern |
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| More turtles - I hope you enjoyed the tour. We only paid $3 to enjoy this sanctuary. They offer season passes for $10. Believe me - if I lived closer I'd be buying a season pass and spending as much time here as I could - sitting on one of the many benches daydreaming of spring. |
