The Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago:
It's just a glass house full of plants. They are organized by plant families or by habitat type or by function. They are but a sampling of the plants growing in places far around the world.
They are but a tiny slice, the few that are adapted to greenhouse life and small and polite enough to fit the confines of the structure and predictable enough to be green year around: Deciduous plants need not apply here.
Yet on a day when the temperatures stay in the single digits and we are just grateful the numbers are not
preceded by a minus sign, it is a warm and welcome change to retreat to the house of strange and varied plants under glass.
It's just a glass house full of plants. They are organized by plant families or by habitat type or by function. They are but a sampling of the plants growing in places far around the world. 
They are but a tiny slice, the few that are adapted to greenhouse life and small and polite enough to fit the confines of the structure and predictable enough to be green year around: Deciduous plants need not apply here. 
Yet on a day when the temperatures stay in the single digits and we are just grateful the numbers are not preceded by a minus sign, it is a warm and welcome change to retreat to the house of strange and varied plants under glass.
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