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Intrepid Garden photographer Mark Pfeffer climbed into a cherry picker and was hoisted 80 feet into the air to capture this shot. And what a shot it is!
The Enid A. Haupt Conservatory From Above (photo by Mark Pfeffer)
It may look soft and fuzzy, and maybe even a wee bit cute, but this little cactus in the Deserts of the Americas house in the Conservatory is none of the things. Except maybe a little cute.
(photo by Ann Rafalko)
Like a chorus of laughing faces, the Arpophyllum spicatum, is covered in miniscule, nearly-neon pink flowers.
Arpophyllum spicatum in the Conservatory (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
What a tongue-twister of a name for such a dainty flower.
Rosenbergiodendron longiflorum in the Conservatory (Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
In the desert, inside the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory.
(photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
”The time has come,” the Walrus said,
”To talk of many things:
Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax–
Of cabbages–and kings–
And why the sea is boiling hot–
And whether pigs have wings.”
Lewis Carroll – The Walrus and the Carpenter
Cyrtostachys renda Sealing Wax Palm (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
A popular common name for this flower is “Powderpuff.” Very little explanation needed as to why!
Calliandra emarginata (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
In the Conservatory.
Palm fronds (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
In the Conservatory.
Calathea zebrina ‘Humilior’ (Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
A camellia worthy of the French master.
Camellia japonica ‘Imbricata Rubra’ (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)