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Kevin M. Gates 📸

@dreaddontdie.com

An African daisy

Garfield Park Conservatory, Chicago - May 2025

#africandaisy #daisy #bloomscrolling #flowers #nature #naturephotography #photography #garfieldparkconservatory #mothersday

July 14, 2025 at 1:58 AM

Gray

@grays.art

Best of 2025 count down: #12

Female Chinese mantis
on New England asters

9-28-25 in Chicago, Illinois
by Garfield Park Conservatory

#StunDay #eastCoastKin #mantids #nature #chicago #insects #macro #photography #predators #macroPhotography #bugs #GarfieldParkConservatory #art #macroPhotography

Cocked head atop folded arms, purple aster background.

December 21, 2025 at 5:28 AM

Gray

@grays.art

Female Chinese mantis
on New England asters

yesterday in Chicago, Illinois
outside Garfield Park Conservatory

📸 Olympus OM-3 90mm ISO200 f16 1/250

#MacroMonday #eastCoastKin #mantids #nature #chicago #insects #macro #photography #predators #macroPhotography #bugs #GarfieldParkConservatory #art

September 29, 2025 at 8:20 AM

Kevin M. Gates 📸

@dreaddontdie.com

Flowering globe cactus

Garfield Park Conservatory, Chicago - May 2025

#globecactus #cactus #macro #macrophotography #photography #flowering #bloom #garfieldpark #garfieldparkconservatory

July 2, 2025 at 1:22 AM

Caustic Autistic

@causticautistic.bsky.social

Well hello there.

#chicago #garfieldparkconservatory #conservatory #nature #naturephotography #preyingmantis #mantis #macro #macrophotography #monochrome #blackandwhite #bwphotography #bwphoto #bnw #b&w #photography #photosky

A preying mantis looking down from underneath a leaf.

September 18, 2026 at 4:45 AM

A.K.A. Ned Caratacus

@daveyoufool.bsky.social

Yeah, we cute, keep scrollin.

#garfieldparkconservatory

(Me + @thatlizardsquid.bsky.social )

May 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM

Caustic Autistic

@causticautistic.bsky.social

Figured this was as good a Sunday as any to head to the #GarfieldParkConservatory.

#nature #conservatory #desert #desertroom #agave #macro #macrophotography #blackandwhite #photography #photosky

February 9, 2026 at 1:30 AM

Caustic Autistic

@causticautistic.bsky.social

👆 taken in the #fernroom 👇

If you haven't, check out the #GarfieldParkConservatory.

#chicago #conservatory #nature #naturephotography #ferns #photography #photosky

July 21, 2026 at 4:56 AM

Jonathan Ley

@jonathanley.bsky.social

This is the Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago a few weeks ago. This place is a rich treasure of interesting plants under giant glass roofs. It's free to visit for residents of Chicago.
#travelphotography #chicago #garfieldparkconservatory #conservatory

Rich green ferns grow below, while palms reach far above - toward a giant glass ceiling.

April 4, 2025 at 3:09 AM

Karen in Chicago

@kg60660.bsky.social

#HappyNewYear from #GarfieldParkConservatory #Chicago
I have no delusions about 2025, and we need to find tranquility when we can.

January 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM

Caustic Autistic

@causticautistic.bsky.social

Speaking of awesome places from the turn of the 20th century: #GarfieldParkConservatory.

#chicago #conservatory #nature #naturephotography #ferns #fernroom #lilies #lilypond #pond #waterfall #palms #palmtrees #photography #photosky

September 18, 2026 at 1:59 AM

Caustic Autistic

@causticautistic.bsky.social

Sometimes emptiness is beautiful.

#chicago #garfieldparkconservatory #conservatory #streetphotography #streetphotographer #nature #naturephotography #lightandshadow #blackandwhite #bwphotography #bwphoto #photography #photosky

A large open room under a valued glass roof, the sun shining though casting shadows across the brick floor. Various plants line the edges.

Garfield Park Conservatory, located in Garfield Park in Chicago, is one of the largest greenhouse conservatories in the United States. Often referred to as "landscape art under glass", the Garfield Park Conservatory occupies approximately 4.5 acres (18,000 m2) inside and out and contains a number of permanent plant exhibits incorporating specimens from around the world, including some cycads that are over 200 years old.

July 15, 2026 at 10:11 PM

Mike McBride

@mikemcbrideonline.com

New Photo Post - Prickly photos.mikemcbrideonline.com/2026/03/24/p...

Prickly

Chicago, GarfieldParkConservatory

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March 24, 2026 at 4:12 PM

JMax MadeIt

@jmaxmadeit.bsky.social

Took this photo last week, and I can’t stop looking at it. Take me back to this plant-filled peace! #garfieldparkconservatory #plants #conservatory #nature

March 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM

mannadraws.bsky.social

@mannadraws.bsky.social

Went to the #garfieldparkconservatory , pen and sketchbook in hand, to doodle some interesting plants! So far, the weird, furry intestine-like cactus was the most bizarre looking thing I spotted haha
#plants #nature

A page of a sketchbook filled with multiple drawings of plants in ink.

January 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM

𓏟 Seb 𓃣

@chicagoseb.com

At the #GarfieldParkConservatory and admiring their efforts to teach people about #queerecology and the inherent -and abundantly common- queerness in nature.

A sign having to do with queer ecology at the Garfield's Park Conservatory in Chicago.
Text:
People are like plants & plants are like people

For a long time, people have called queerness "unnatural" just because it doesn't fit into the usual "girl or boy" boxes that society expects. Did you know many plants don't follow boy or girl rules? Many flowers have both male and female parts in the same bloom. Not having our possessing both of the typical traits of male or female is defined as "intersex".

Querycology challenges the idea that nature is heterosexual, binary, or follow strict gender roles. It encourages us to think outside of this or that, but rather to think of all the beautiful instances between them.

Plants teach us that being different is natural and wonderful.

What is Queer Ecology?
Queer Ecology demonstrates that nature, animals, and people are full of different ways of living and growing, just like people are. It helps us understand that plants don't always fit into neat boxes. Some, like the papaya, can even change their sex depending on the weather and how much energy they have.

Flower of a bromeliad jutting out of its center. It's a burst of pink with tiny blue inflorescences amongst the sea of deep Greens.

Here's a type of orchid that is red yellow and orange when in bloom and the little purplish when still a bud.

A ground orchid between some green leaves.

July 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM

The Magician's Log

@themagicianslog.bsky.social

Vending Machine Tarot!
Now is the time for rest and renewal. Don't rush it, take this time for yourself, figure out what you want and nurture it as only you can. There's a real power in solitude when it comes to future growth.
#tarotsky #witchsky #GarfieldParkConservatory #TheDarkExact