Sunday, January 25, 2009

The Orangerie


We went to The Orangerie at the Tower Hill Botanical Garden this weekend. In Europe, a lot of the 'grand homes' had an Orangerie (a large green house) for all their garden plants during the winter. This was just what we needed, a warm room full of bright greenery to break out of the winter blahs...

The part of the building that you can see jutting out (with wood paned windows) is the orangerie...
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