Taste of the Tropics

Mom and I visited Krohn Conservatory on Thursday. It was a rainy, gloomy day. Mom was feeling a bit defeated by the fatigue-inducing chemo. I was having tropical climate withdrawal. The tropical room at the conseratory did the trick for both of us-lots of thick palms and succulents. The conservatory houses a large variety of ferns and unusual cycads. Bromeliad and begonia surrounds a koi pond. There's even a waterfall and cave. The tropical room maintains a high humidity and feels like the atoll in the cool season which happens to be right now. My favorites plants are the chocolate tree, pomengranite, vanilla vine and the dwarf banana. It even smelled like home. The trip did us both good.