Category Archives: Edmonton

100 It’s not big, the conservatory in Edmonton, with four greenhouse pyramids: the arid, the tropical, the temperate and the feature (during my visit in 2012 holding an exhibit of teddy bears having a picnic). It’s pretty, though. The smells and the sound of running water in both the temperate and tropical pyramids have suchContinue reading “Edmonton (ii)”

78 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 onContinue reading “Edmonton (i)”