Blooms of the week

Week of February 6, 2023

Hospitality Greenhouse
- Insectivorous plants in the terrarium.
- Flowers: red ginger, pendent heliconia, bird of paradise, Amazon lily, and more.
- Fruits: screw pine, Christmas palm
Tropical Rainforest Greenhouse
- Flowers: several bromeliads and orchids, Mexican shrimp plant, lollipop plant, Amazon lily, Queen Emma lily, spider lily, and more.
- Colourful leaves carpet the ground and Spanish moss serves as a backdrop.
Tropical Food Plants Greenhouse
- Fruits: banana tree, papaya, citrus, coconut palm, starfruit tree, akee, jackfruit tree, tree cotton, rice, and more.
- Flowers: banana tree, rose-apple tree, soursop tree, Macadamia nut tree, and more.
Orchids and Aroids Greenhouse
- Spectacularly shaped and coloured orchids. Some are fragrant.
- Some aroids are also in bloom, such as tailflowers and peace lilies.
Ferns Greenhouse
- Fascinating staghorn ferns and tree ferns.
- Plant walls.
- Blue strap fern with iridescent fronds and strange whisk-fern (terrarium).
Begoniaceae and Gesneriads Greenhouse
- Foliage of various shapes, textures and colours.
- Colourful blooms: begonias, goldfish plant, tree gloxinia, rhytidophyllum, sinningia, codonanthe, primulina, and more.
- Plant walls.
Arid Regions Greenhouse
- Flowers: crown of thorns, aloe, and more.
- Fruits: woolly-joint prickly pear and Barbados gooseberry
- Over 80-year-old elephant foot trees (next to the doors of the Hacienda).
Hacienda
- Flowers: poinsettias, aloe, bougainvillea, wickerware cactus, and more.
- Fruits: silver cluster cactus
- Peeling bark of the fragrant bursera
Garden of Weedlessness
- Beautiful penjings
- Flowers: winter jasmine, wintersweet (fragrant), common camellia, Banksian rose
- Fruits: princess persimmon
Main Exhibition Greenhouse

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