A Garden Under Glass

Visiting the conservatory at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden

Last week I shared some exposure from the outside gardens at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond , Virginia . Today we ’re taking a trip-up back to this wonderful piazza , but focusing on what is come about inside the beautiful conservatory .

before long after you enter the garden , you are treat to this panorama of the conservatory , with its striking 63 - foot - magniloquent dome in the marrow . Within the conservatoire are 11,000 square feet fill with all sorts of absorbing tropic plants . The stately arranging of hedges and brick tract create the consummate setting for this beautiful building .

My favorite elbow room in the conservatoire is the orchid house . Every meter I visit there are different varieties in full salad days . Conservatories usually force off unbelievable orchid display like this by have two unlike growing areas . One is out of the public middle , where the orchidaceous plant hold out when not in flower . Once they begin to bloom , they get move out to the public video display area . I do n’t have a greenhouse , but I ’ve tried to steal this musical theme at home . My orchids live in a shaded area outside during the summer and on a bright windowsill in a back elbow room during the moth-eaten months . When they come into bloom , they take place of pridefulness in the living room . That way they can have the condition they need to flourish and raise , and I can enjoy them to the extreme when they ’re in flower .

More orchidaceous plant ! The big white one in the foreground is a cattleya . I ’ve found them to be one of the easier groups of orchids to bloom and reflower at nursing home .

This green wall is lade down with tropical plants like bromeliads that naturally grow perched on Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree branches and so easily take to life sentence on a wall .

A arresting vanda orchidaceous plant . I suppose these are pretty unmanageable to grow without a greenhouse , but what an unbelievable flower !

And in the corner of the orchidaceous plant elbow room there ’s an enormous bougainvillea . It ’s hard to baffle this iconic tropical vine when it comes to sheer flower exponent .

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