Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory
/The Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory is on Belle Island (in the Detroit River). It is the oldest continually-running conservatory in the US….opening in 1904. The original wood framing was replaced with steel and aluminum in 1949. My daughter and I stopped to see it on our road trip from our homes in Missouri to London Ontario.
The place is filled with interesting plants. It was challenging to get wide views from the relatively narrow walkways other than looking upward.
I quickly reverted to macro type photographs.
Some plants interested me so much that I took multiple images of the same plant.
Curly crotons were new to me.
The Venus flytrap and pitcher plants were inside a terrarium type structure that somehow made it even easier to photograph them.
The cactus room was one of my favorites…my theme was to photograph the various configurations of cactus spines.
The conservatory is not the largest I’ve toured…but it probably packs more plants into its space than any other! Tomorrow’s post will be about the grounds around the conservatory (including a koi pond) and the aquarium.
