Brookside Gardens Conservatory - Feb. 26

Yesterday I posted about the outdoors part of our walk around Brookside Gardens and Nature Center. Today the post is about the Brookside Gardens conservatory. As always it was a lush, moist stroll.

The banana palm has a bunch of green fruits and the bird-of-paradise is blooming. I photographed them so many times before that I focused on other plants this  time. The colors nestled in the greenery were a delightful contrast to the browns still outdoors.

Colors that blend and mimic sunrise/sunset...colors that are delicate and hint at fruit to come...luxurious purple. Petals delicate and sturdy - some that look like dragons that can snap or start out like folded oragamy papers or unfurl to flutter individually from their interlocked bud.

And then there are the plants that point their flowers downward...to the side...or upward to soak in the sun.

The conservatory always has something worth seeing.