The Greenhouse can rival a true botanical garden and is the perfect place to relax and enjoy plants and flowers all year round. Indoor gardens include Water Garden with tropical plants, fruits and seasonal flowers, Cactus House, Fern Room and several more. Outdoor gardens include Japanese and Peach gardens, and the Talking Garden for the Blind.
Tropical Showhouse
The entrance to Rockefeller Park Greenhouse
Tropical Showhouse is a a water garden with tropical fruit. You can see banana trees with green fruit and a purple bloom.
A ponderosa (bearded) lemon with a long white beard. Keep on walking and you will see a bearded cactus too.
Papaya; Shell ginger
Sago palm and a Grapefruit tree
Blue Water Basin
Flowers in the water basin room
A vase plant -- it looks like a real vase with water inside.
A plant growing through its shell
Red and Yellow Flowers in the Theme Showhouse
Flowers room
Orchid and other flowers. Read more in Reigning Trowel in a Kingdom of Orchids. NYTimes, 02/2008.
Cacti Showhouse
Cactus garden
"Old man cactus" with a long white beard; Turk's cap; Pin cushion; Cactus flower
Barrel cactus
White Flowers in the Water Garden
White flowers room
Fern Showhouse
Fern Garden with baby tears fern in the center; Plume asparagus
Outdoor Gardens
Outdoor Gardens in the winter. Check out how different they look in the photos taken during the Annual Spring Bulb Show below.
The Peace Garden on the left of the parking lot
Tulips
Tulips and more flowers
The English garden on the right of the parking lot
Talking Garden for the Blind
Lolly the Trolley (Cleveland sightseeing tours) stops at the Rockefeller Greenhouse.
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