This year’s Winter Flower Show and Light Garden ends tomorrow to make way for the annual Orchid and Bonsai Show. The conservatory is open late for the light show, which has become one of Pittsburgh’s chief holiday attractions.
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Winter Light Garden at Phipps Conservatory
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Lord & Burnham, Horticultural Architects and Builders
From the American Architect and Building News, July 25, 1896. Lord & Burnham designed Phipps Conservatory in 1892, which was probably their biggest commission ever; and in this 1896 advertisement for their services, we see them showing a model conservatory that is very much like one of the wings of Phipps.
Southeast wing of Phipps Conservatory, with John Massey Rhind’s Robert Burns. -
Laelia
In the Orchid Room at Phipps Conservatory.
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Blue Vanda in the Orchid Room, Phipps Conservatory
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A Frightful Cycad
Since today is supposed to be dedicated to all things frightful, here is a cycad whose very name tells you it is ferocious: Encephalartos ferox. It was growing and coning (the bright salmon-colored cone is a female cone) in the Fern Room at Phipps Conservatory. For the purposes of the Fern Room, cycads are honorary ferns.
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Farewell to the Fall Flower Show
Today is the last day of the Fall Flower Show at Phipps Conservatory. This is how the East Room was decorated.
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Chrysanthemums and Coleus
At the Phipps Fall Flower Show.
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Japanese Maples
In the Japanese Courtyard Garden at Phipps Conservatory.
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Chrysanthemums at the Phipps Fall Flower Show
This is the last weekend of the Fall Flower Show at Phipps. They’re already starting work on the Winter Flower Show. Every year each show has a whimsical theme, but for fall the stars of the show are always the chrysanthemums.
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Rooftops of Oakland and Phipps Conservatory
Looking across the rowhouses and apartments of central Oakland toward Phipps Conservatory. In the distance at upper left is the Park Mansions apartment building.
