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Brooklyn Botanical Garden Tour
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" Well Judy this is the bed of a shock coming out of that twenty grief snowy courtyard out there -- this lush tropical faith. It's also a little bit about the greenhouse that got three of them here."
" We do and we have about 20000 square feet underclass these are tubular steel structures and -- skin. And these provide the major display space for a three main collection here."
" When where they built this has 1980 they'll be this a pretty new technology and and that what's the total square footage you have under glass."
" We have 20000 this place -- about another 25000. Of growing facing -- from space says that the fate that's a lot of space what it cost to build that it was 25 million dollars."
" I'll actually be due to man. Though the front close to 500 dollars a square foot that's not too bad not bad at all what you got. What's the logic in terms of all the plants that are assembled here this is all tropical plants and this wasn't it."
" It is that we have a main focus on economic plant something that is either -- worn or used for economic reasons. -- like this this is the kind of my hat off you are trying to make -- marvelous. And I would have never known that. But I do recognize the giant overhead the banana isn't it wonderful and you can see some fruits forming on it right now your. It's great for us in her teaching programs because many city children think things like bananas grow in that. Not on -- for. Absolutely. And then what about this next tree I don't recognize this -- Cameron -- probably eaten hammering."
" Yeah and I lived in the tropics center exactly what you're talking about -- long pond and then -- the paced inside it makes like a kind of at julliard then it. I recognize that that's ginger now there really is such an important part of Asian cuisine than -- And what else is over here."
" Well if you like chocolate absolutely well we've got that cocoa tree and you can just see if hot forming on right now -- pods form right off Patricio this -- plan for that reason and you get cocoa butter chocolate. From --"
" We do have a wonderful poppy plants and and it of course coffee would be red -- when they're ready to pick now it's very early in the season that you can just think some of the flower buds forming. And these will become. The flowers and eventually cost her."
" Op Ed good evening in the middle of the metropolis how many visitors do you get here annually we get 800000 visitors annually."
" And many of those incidents of children whose parents came here from tropical countries. From Haiti from Santa Domingo we have a large could be an American population here who."
" Perhaps it never visited their homeland and they can certainly get a sense of what it's like saying I'm sitting here right we're through next let's go to the temperate facility. Now that was sort of a quiet which is fairly not a temperate plants."
" Now it's actually the Japanese rice paper plant but it does look tropical doesn't it. Well a temperate zone is actually viewed it -- it is in this continent alone it's from northern Florida all the way up to the maritimes in Canada."
" OK I recognize -- this is like a trip to the floor -- that this is the Camellia. In full bloom -- very pretty and below what they're primrose is which of course you can find in the wild but usually violent the floors and the little cycle and then. There's that -- been -- yet. This is off -- stuff but the look beautiful actually in the soil what do you call this bush is -- wonderful except -- this forum. Wolf it's like smells a little bit like an orange blossoms delicious. Beautiful and are ignited this tree had a lot of these in Florida on the bottle -- there actually from the Southern Hemisphere hot. And what about the the very upright. Green nut tree here."
" Another Australian plant that's the Australian brushed -- you can just see a few fruits left. In the back sure."
" I gotta tell you it really catches my eye here though is the stone work."
" I want to believe -- all over the place where I'm glad to think so it actually isn't though it's. Pre fabricated rock summit that was made out Arizona by the -- company who did all the design work. And summit that was actually sculpted on site in its cement over chicken wire frame it's master well it looks just straight out of Central Park and a well where to next what's in the -- greenhouse will be much dryer there we're going to the desert pavilion next. Which kind of chilly in the desert how it actually gets down to forty degrees -- at night who really. -- the desert isn't necessarily a hot place it's apparent -- place that's what distinguishes it but there's color in the desert. On things coming to -- right these are Alison. It's -- very."
" Beautiful having grown up in south Florida I recognize a lot of things here but I wouldn't have thought they were desert vegetation this is a type of cal on going to my dad allowed. They called velvet plant because -- really feel like velvet. And then of course over here really does. Feel like we're in the desert and a."
" Now we have things that are actually -- you for obvious this is related to point seven this cactus and isn't exactly the --"
" And they're all over the place here if you -- times and here we are in the shadow of a Pittsfield have that we that the baseball -- that is a cactus known as the baseball plant. Or via -- Well this is really really special environment I mean if you look in the center of your greenhouse here. It really does start to look like -- on the wild west some place."
