Brookside Conservatories – March 2016

I enjoyed walking around Brookside Gardens earlier this week – the warmest day of the week (sweatshirt weather, breezy, sunny). I started out in the conservatories. There was eye popping color right as I walked in – purple, green and white.

And orchids with their complex blooms. It is always a celebration of the relationship between flowers and pollinators when I photograph orchids at close range. This one even has fuzz on the runway to encourage the insect to move in the right direction!

Some plants have flowers that grow as mini-bouquets or globes of color. This is an orange and yellow version.

I took two views of this flower group – from the side

And then straight down into the flower.

Then there were mounds of small yellow flowers too.

A subtler beauty – a leaf floating on top of the water in the pool – with roots underneath. It’s a good visual for the concept of water tension.

I missed reds until I got a little further into the conservatory. These flowers looked best before they were fully open.

I experimented with some images of ferns growing over water in the Conservatory’s stream. Do you like the seeing the larger view

Or the zoomed in version? I think the zoomed in version looks more painterly.

Tomorrow’s post will feature the outdoors part of my walk at Brookside Gardens.