Recently I visited a college friend in Asheville, NC. Among the things we did was hike around the Biltmore Gardens and wander through the greenhouse. We also had a picnic and visited the Wine Tasting Room which was a great way to end the day. Please don’t think we hiked the WHOLE Biltmore Gardens because we didn’t—it’s a thousand acres.
The garden was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. According to his website (no, someone else writes it, he’s been dead a while) this was his last great project. Here’s the link to the site—very interesting stuff.
The picture below was taken on our hike—it’s very “Olmsted”.
BUT this post is supposed to be about the GREENHOUSE.
This is the outside of the greenhouse- I started hyperventilating at this point.
…then I went inside…
…everywhere I looked was something more beautiful that the last…
…these are doors with mirrors for panes and pots attached… (sorry for the blurry picture, low light on the cell phone blah, blah, blah)
…there were more orchids than I could count and massive stag horn ferns…
At some point in my daze I wandered out of the orchid rooms and into the green areas (I honestly don’t know what to call this room—it’s all tropical).
The architecture of the building was easier to see here and grander I think.
My camera started to lose it’s juice or I would have taken a thousand more pictures—darn. I need to go back. It was incredible—even non gardeners would love it, I think.
Later,
Patti
