Sunnyside Conservatory 236 Monterey Blvd. San Francisco, CA 94131. The Conservatory Gardens are open from dawn until dusk. The Conservatory building is open for permitted private and community events.

Conservatories, greenhouses and aviaries were popular in stately Victorian-era homes, but even modest residences might have a little birdcage. Fashionable too were ferns, palms and terrariums.

So often it seems as though conservatory suppliers are trying to confuse us. Some conservatory companies call a Victorian design an Edwardian or a Georgian. Others will use names like Home ...

The conservatory is back in business after Metro Parks Tacoma completed a $2.73 million renovation that has kept the building closed for a year. Seymour is one of only three public Victorian-style ...

The W.W. Seymour Botanical Conservatory is one of only three public Victorian-style conservatories on the West Coast and is listed on the city, state and national historic registers.

Fill a bay window with greenery — a palm or two, a bevy of begonias and geraniums displayed on a rattan plant stand. Put a huge fern in a big basket or copper urn and set it atop an Oriental … ...