Bolz Conservatory Exhibit: Light Gaps June 15, 2009

The trees are trimmed and the bushes are pruned during annual maintenance in the Bolz Conservatory...now it's time to see the light in the forest! Learn about light and how plants develop and change in the forest as light fluctuates With more than 750 plants in the Bolz Conservatory, the tropical plants compete for every sunbeam that radiates through the glass pyramid. When a gap in the forest canopy is created naturally or by a clipping from Olbrich's Conservatory staff, new growth develops at an exceptional rate.