Conservatory Display
Spring Display: Garden Elements
Saturday, January 17 - Sunday, April 12, 2009
10:00am-5:00pm daily; FREE
Brookside Gardens Conservatory
Spring Display in South Conservatory
It will seem like spring in January when the conservatories will be filled with flowering plants that prefer the cool temperatures and short days of winter. Greenhouse snapdragons, tall stately, and fragrant, will be combined with other tropical and garden plants, such as cymbidium orchids, stock, florist geraniums, and petunias, to create scenes of welcome color and delightful fragrance. Accenting the flowers will be cast cement leaf ornaments and hypertufa trough containers created by the gardening staff. These natural garden ornaments and planters will be colored and planted in both bold and understated ways.
Spring Display in South Conservatory
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The Brookside Gardens Sculpture show has been discontinued. It was held in the North & South Conservatories, at 1500 Glenallan Avenue, Wheaton, Maryland 20902, each year. The unique Conservatory setting enhanced these imaginative and creative interpretations, suitable for indoor or outdoor installation.
The sculptors range from the budding amateur, to the "found" materials artist, to the academic and polished, even engineered, skills of the professional. This community is rich in talents and is undergoing a boom in quantity, quality, and diversity of expression. Sculpture has been a stimulating part of gardens since the dawn of civilization. Brookside Gardens was happy to carry-on and encourage that tradition.
Special thanks to Leonard Friedman and Harvey Kupferberg for photographing the 2007 Spring Display and Sculpture Show.
2007 Sculpture Photographs & Slide Show
2007 List of Sculptors and Sculptures (pdf, 111KB)*
2007 Sculpture Show Behind the Scenes (pdf, 2.8MB)*
