Seymour Conservatory for the Twelfth Day of Christmas

Happy Epiphany and twelfth day of Christmas.  In the eastern orthodox tradition, Christmas was celebrated yesterday. Technically, twelfth night was December fifth but some lump it together with Epiphany on the sixth.  It's bad luck to take down holiday decorations before this date and some say it's bad luck to leave them up any longer.  Some sources say that it's okay to leave everything up until Candlemas (Groundhog Day) on February 2.  Simplifying things, I didn't put any decorations up this year so am not worried about when they should be removed.   We walked over to the conservatory to see their holiday display last week.


 Difficult to see in this photo are two poinsettia trees.  There are colored lights wound around branches of many of the plants.



The riot of color is rather nice during this cold season.  BTW in addition to the regular heat source, there was a large space heater blowing hot air into the tropical area.



The plant in the background is labelled Amorphophallus  and from the description, it sounds like A. titanum.  Which translates misshapen giant phallus.  Isn't botanical Latin fun?



And speaking of amorphallus, this Hippieastrum seems to have two bloom stalks that fused together.









You may have noticed white paper stars in some of the pictures.  These are part of Tacoma's "Stars 4 Peace." The instructions are 2 complicated for 1 of my advanced years to follow but the idea is nice. Digits instead of words, Tag, pound sign, capitalized Social Media, I'm confused.  (I don't like to complain but don't want to risk losing my curmudgeon credential.)