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Main entrance to Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens.
Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens is a complex of buildings and grounds set in Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (near the Carnegie Museums in Oakland).
The gardens were founded in 1893 by steel and real-estate magnate Henry Phipps as a gift to the City of Pittsburgh. Its purpose is to educate and entertain the people of Pittsburgh with formal gardens (Roman, English, etc.) and various species of exotic plants (palm trees, succulents, bonsai, orchids, etc.). Currently the facilities house elaborate gardens within the thirteen room conservatory itself and on the adjoining grounds. In addition to lovely flora, the sophisticated glass and metalwork of the Lord & Burnham conservatory offers a wonderful example of Victorian greenhouse architecture.
[edit] Gardens
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Outdoor gardens |
- Palm Court
- Serpetine Room
- Fern Room
- Orchid Room
- Stove Room
- South Conservatory
- Tropical Fruit and Spice Room
- The Gallery
- Sunken Garden
- Desert Room
- Victoria Room
- Parterre de Boderie Room
- East Room
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A swan display in the Sunken Garden
during the 2005 Winter Flower Show.
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- Discovery Garden
- Japanese Courtyard Garden
- Aquatic Garden
- Outdoor Garden
- Medicinal Plant Garden
- Botany Hall Garden
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[edit] Expansion
In October of 2003 Phipps announced an ambitious expansion project. The first phase of which, a green engineered Welcome Center topped by a neo-Victorian dome, was completed in 2005. The next parts of the project to be completed will be Production Greenhouses and a Tropical Forest Conservatory.
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