Olbrich Gardens Aroids

From: Iza & Carol Goroff goroff at idcnet.com> on 1999.11.12 at 16:25:10(3827) While attending a mostly wonderful shade gardens symposium at Olbrich Gardens in Madison, Wisconsin ( and avoiding the session on hostas to which I am aesthetically allergic), I wandered into the Gardens' conservatory. I highly recommend anyone interested in aroids, who does not have access to the larger collections in St. Louis and places south, visit the Olbrich conservatory. It is remarkably well landscaped and contains a large collections of well-grown aroids. I counted the number of species/cultivars of each of the genera listed below: 3 Aglonema 6 Alocasia 15 Anthurium 1 Homelomena 1 Monstera 10 Philodendron 1 Schismatoglottis 1 Spathophyllum 2 Syngonium 1 Xanthosema Most of the plants are clearly labelled, although many of the philodendrons (and some others) have wandered far from where they were originally planted, and some have overgrown their labels. Iza Goroff +More Whitewater Wisconsin

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