{"id":91,"date":"2016-04-08T18:12:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T23:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turningmoss.com\/?p=91"},"modified":"2016-11-04T11:00:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T16:00:02","slug":"garfield-park-conservatory-spring-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turningmoss.com\/garfield-park-conservatory-spring-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Garfield Park Conservatory Spring Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GarfieldBy the time March rolls around I am beyond\u00a0ready for spring to take off. Longer days are near\u00a0and soon green will be sprouting up everywhere. I live only a couple miles from the Garfield Park Conservatory, an outrageously beautiful greenhouse full of luscious thriving plants. It’s the perfect oasis, and for whatever reason, I rarely visit any conservatory during the winter. What’s up with that? It’s like I must forget that I have the option and choose hibernation instead. It doesn’t make a lot of sense. Once April hits,\u00a0it’s time to get out and catch\u00a0up with all my favorite green spots in the area. Naturally, the first stop was the\u00a0Garfield Park Conservatory. There is a lot to see there, so I’ll just share a few images from two of my favorite rooms.<\/p>\n

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Pictured above : Spike Moss (Selaginella erythropus ‘Sanguinea’ Selaginellacea)<\/p>\n

One of the most magical areas of the conservatory is the Fern Room. The grand entranceway leads to a world of green mosses and ferns, everywhere you look is a fresh blanket of moss or a new frond about to unfurl. This room is Alive, it’s the room that makes me want to continuously return and keep on learning more, here are some details that caught my eye…<\/p>\n

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\"GarfieldAfter wandering around the misty fern room, heading into\u00a0the Desert House<\/a>\u00a0provokes quite a different experience.\u00a0This arid room is full of an impressive variety cacti and succulents- fractals everywhere,\u00a0species that are surely from another planet…<\/p>\n

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\"GarfieldTop left: Thimble Cactus, Mammillaria gracilis, Cactacea Mexico. Bottom left: Golden Stars Mammillaria, Mammillaria elongata ‘Golden Stars’ Cactacea.<\/p>\n

\"GarfieldBelow: Orange Button Plant, Kleinia fulgens, Asteraceae, Africa.<\/p>\n

\"GarfieldThere are\u00a0several other rooms worth talking about here,\u00a0we’ll\u00a0definitely explore them more\u00a0soon. For now we’ll head out the way we came- through the Palm House<\/a>\u00a0admiring some of the many magnificent patterns…<\/p>\n

\"GarfieldBelow: Mosaic Plant, Fittonia vershaffeltii pearcei ‘Juanita’ Acanthacear, South America.<\/p>\n

\"GarfieldIf you’re interested in checking out\u00a0The Garfield Park Conservatory, you can find it here:<\/p>\n

Garfield Park Conservatory<\/a><\/h4>\n

300 N. Central Park Ave.,\u00a0Chicago, IL 60624<\/p>\n

Thanks for taking a quick stroll with me! Looking forward to visiting again soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By the time March rolls around I am beyond\u00a0ready for spring to take off. Longer days are near\u00a0and soon green will be sprouting up everywhere. I live only a couple miles from the Garfield Park Conservatory, an outrageously beautiful greenhouse full of luscious thriving plants. It’s the perfect oasis, and for whatever reason, I rarely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[123,318,229,57,56],"tags":[26,23,24,22,31,29,21,34,27,32,30,20,19,18,28,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turningmoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turningmoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turningmoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turningmoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turningmoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.turningmoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600,"href":"https:\/\/www.turningmoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turningmoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turningmoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turningmoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turningmoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}