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On Wednesday of our Conservatory Tour week, we spent a day in Baltimore, which is about an hour from where we live. There's a conservatory at Druid Hill Park, near the Baltimore Zoo, that was on our list to visit. We've been to the zoo quite a few times, so I suppose we've driven by this conservatory, but had never paid much attention. Since we were based at home instead of staying at hotels for the rest of the week, we planned for Kennady to invite friends along on these day trips to conservatories.
The Howard Peters Rawlings Conservatory & Botanical Gardens was opened in 1888, making it the second oldest glass conservatory in America. It's on the National Register of Historic Places and is a Baltimore City Landmark. The conservatory features year-round displays of plants from all over the world in five exhibit areas. There's an Orchid Room, a Mediterranean House, Tropical House, and Desert House; as well as the original 1888 Palm House. The larger building in the forefront is the Palm House.
The girls went back to the entrance where they could buy food for the koi, and we spent some time feeding the fish!
We finished with the Palm House - isn't it beautiful?
The outdoor gardens were still beautiful, even though it was much too late in the season for roses and many other summer flowers.
We spotted a lot of butterflies though!
There are a couple more Conservatory Tour PhotoJournals still to come!
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