Conservatory of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, the flowerbeds hadn't been planted yet. |
I had an exceptional 24 hours in San Francisco last week with my sister, Alyssa. The weather was deliciously warm and sunny, unusual in the city so perhaps I brought it with me from Austin. We walked from her neighborhood over to Candlestick Park on the auspicious hallows of a local holiday. Amid wafting, incense-like smoke we toured the the Conservatory of Flowers. If you may recall, we were foiled from participating in a tour last time I visited her, forced only to walk the perimeter of the Victorian greenhouse, constructed from a Sears Roebuck prefabricated kit if I recall correctly.
So without much ado I'll share my best photos from the tour. I have some gems so I'm going to space them out based on each room of the Conservatory. Virtual tour y'all! I'll be here all week!
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Lowland Tropics Gallery, conservatoryofflowers.org |
Let's start in the Lowland Tropics room, the largest gallery in the conservatory. The enclosure boasts an immense vaulted ceiling to safely house a collection of large cycads and fruiting trees.
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Wide format of the gallery, from conservatoryofflowers.org |
I missed taking some room-wide shots of this gallery so I'll add this photo from the website so you can get an idea of the scale.
Imperial Philodendron |
Note the sprawling support structure needed to brace the plant. In nature a plant of this stature would depend on the branches of nearby trees.
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