A Personal Amateur Photography Blog
Lincoln Park and Garfield Park are both city parks in Chicago that have impressive glass conservatories. This time of year both are having their spring flower shows.
We start with Lincoln Park.
And now it was on to Garfield Park
Garfield Park’s is larger, with more rooms, including an impressive cacti collection.
One thing is certain, there is competition for everything. On this hot Saturday we found ourselves at the Krohn Conservatory in Cincinnati for the annual Daylily competition.
But first we checked out the rest of the historic conservatory.
The building is fairly small for a conservatory, however when it was opened in 1933 it was one of the best in the country. They do make great use of the space they have.
As with most conservatories, it was very colorful.
Normally when you go to a conservatory and go into the tropics areas you feel the heat and humidity, although on this day it was nearly 100 F in Cincinnati so it was actually cooler inside than out.
They had a great variety of plants.
The Daylily competition was held in the Bonsai room. Normally the bonsai trees are the center of attention, but not this day!
There was a separate competition for the centerpieces.
The colors were very vivid, with many reds and oranges not normally seen on daylillies.
While a competition, everyone there were very friendly and anxious to talk to you about growing the flowers, and encouraging you to join their club.
A beautiful start to our afternoon in Cincinnati.
RDZ Photography 