San Antonio Botanical Garden – Part 1
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We took advantage of having a morning in San Antonio, Texas before our late afternoon flight home to walk around the San Antonio Botanical Garden. The first thing we noticed is that the garden is still being actively developed with some areas barricaded either for updating or new building. We headed to the conservatories forest. These are very different structures than the glass houses of the 1800s/early 1900s. They rise from concrete peers – high shards into the sky surrounding a courtyard. The climate in San Antonio is mild enough that even the courtyard looked lush and green at the beginning of winter!
There were sculptures in the gardens within the conservatories and the courtyard. My favorite was the ‘owl.’
The conservatories were divided by climate types: desert,
Primitive plants like cycads (l loved the color of the fresh cones)
And Screw pines (I saw the mature fruit in Hawaii and got a better look at the Phipps Conservatory, but this is the first time I saw the fruit at this stage of development).
I can’t resist the unfurling of ferns
Or the tropical flowering plants and trees.
And that was just the first part of our walk around the San Antonio Botanical Garden. There’ll be another post about the place tomorrow.
