Brookside Gardens South Conservatory in February
/Update: This blog post is about a visit to Brookside Gardens early in March. Like all Montgomery County Parks facilities the conservatories are closed today as part of the strategy to slow the spread of COVID-19. Check the garden web site for more information.
Continuing about my walk around Brookside Gardens into the South Conservatory…
This is where the butterfly exhibit will be housed by the later part of April. For now, it is full of blooms. The snapdragons are dominant. The day I went was sunny and I enjoyed trying to get positioned so that the throats of the flowers were fired by the sun – making them look more like dragons.
The sun coming through the Amaryllis blooms make the edges pop.
But my favorite Amaryllis shot was one in the shade.
All kinds of flowers take on a different look depending on whether the light is behind or above or in front of the flower.
I took a last look back at the conservatory and used the zoom to get two more flowers…
Then went outdoors to find out how far along the spring bulbs in the garden were.
