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March 2012, afternoon. I’m sitting in the temperate pyramid greenhouse at the Muttart Conservatory, Edmonton’s botanical garden. It’s slightly cold, but with my Peruvian alpaca sweater I won’t freeze. The smell in here is heavenly, a combination of pine and herbs and the early blooming daffodils. And above me: An elk’s-horn fern growing on an Alexandra palm. An excellent specimen of an epiphyte. Edmonton might not be the most exciting city, but they have some really nice botanic greenhouses, wonderful to visit on a snowy March day.
Photo: The Muttart Conservatory in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, March 2012. Posted on Instagram November 26, 2020.
Katja Malmborg 