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Press Release – archive

2015

• The Wild Bunch: Succulents, Cacti & Fat Plants
  The Conservatory gets rough and tumble as it celebrates some of the more ornery gangs of the plant world

• Garden Railway: 1915 Pan–Pacific
  An all-new garden railway display celebrating the centennial of the Panama–Pacific International Exposition

• Stranded! Tropical Island Survival
  “Wash up” on an uncharted tropical shore to learn the ins and outs of island survival

2014

• Aquascapes: The Art of Underwater Gardening
  Dive into the dazzling world of aquatic plants in a new exhibition of tropical underwater gardens
• CHOMP! They Came from the Swamp
  The Conservatory’s popular carnivorous plant exhibition returns April 11 – October 19, 2014, transforming the San Francisco landmark into a swampy paradise for meat-eating plants

2013

• Butterflies & Blooms extended
  Due to overwhelming demand, the Conservatory’s exhibition Butterflies & Blooms continues through March 16, 2014
• Butterflies & Blooms
  The Conservatory of Flowers’ exhibition of live butterflies returns with hundreds of beauties on the wing in a fascinating demonstration of plant pollination in action
• Boomtown: Barbary Coast at the Conservatory of Flowers
  The Conservatory of Flowers’ 5th Annual Garden Railway

2012

• Plantosaurus Rex
  Prehistoric Plants at the Conservatory of Flowers

• Playland at the Conservatory: A Garden Railway Celebrating San Francisco’s West End
  Take a trip down memory lane as a bygone era of seaside amusement comes to miniature life in this season¹s Conservatory of Flowers garden railway exhibition

2011

• Wicked Plants: Botanical Rogues & Assassins
  Northern California Author Amy Stewart’s 2009 New York Times Bestseller, Wicked Plants: The Weed that Killed Lincoln’s Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities comes to deadly life at the Conservatory of Flowers this summer

2010

• Garden Railway
  The Conservatory of Flowers celebrates the 140th Anniversary of Golden Gate Park with an all new garden railway exhibition that brings the city’s famed park to miniature life
• Chomp 2! Return of the Carnivorous Plants
  The Conservatory of Flowers ‘regurgitates’ its popular carnivorous plant exhibition

2009

• The Golden Gate Express™
  The Conservatory of Flowers’ popular garden railway exhibit steams back into town for the holidays

• Edible Expeditions
  Food Goes Wild in a New Exhibition about Edible Plants.

2008

• The Golden Gate Express™
  Model trains zip through a mini San Francisco in the Conservatory of Flowers’ first garden railway exhibition
• The Butterfly Zone
  The Conservatory of Flowers’ exhibition of live butterflies returns with double the number of butterflies and special new Night Safaris.2007
• Chomp!
  San Francisco’s Conservatory of Flowers turns into a garden of deadly delights with this monster of a carnivorous plant exhibition.
• Orchids of the Americas
  From the cloud forests of the Andes Mountains to the steamy Amazon rainforest, tropical America is home to thousands of species of orchids.2006
• ONE: An Earth Installation by Stanlee Gatti
  San Francisco’s celebrated designer and artist, Stanlee Gatti, reflects on the fascinating period in our natural history when plant life emerged in a dazzling art installation at the Conservatory of Flowers.
• Flights of Fancy
  Hundreds of live butterflies will delight visitors at the Conservatory of Flowers’ special exhibit “The Butterfly Zone”.
• The Modern Art of Orchids
  Orchids meet Jackson Pollock in a new exhibit featuring hundreds of nature’s living masterpieces, on view through February 26, 2006.
• Bouquets for the Conservatory on the Anniversary of its Reopening
  A Year of Prestigious Awards and Successes for San Francisco’s Conservatory of Flowers.2005
• Nature’s Pharmacy: The Healing Power of Plants
  New exhibition at San Francisco’s Conservatory of Flowers
• World’s Largest and Stinkiest Bloom Begins to Flower at San Francisco’s Conservatory of Flowers2004
• Classtime at the Conservatory
  San Francisco’s Conservatory of Flowers Launches its Brand New School Program
• Still a Tropical Beauty After All These Years
  The Conservatory of Flowers Celebrates its 125th Year2003
• Flower Power Returns to San Francisco
  The Conservatory of Flowers Reopens on September 20
• It’s a Jungle in Here!
  The San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers Prepares to Reopen
• This Old Conservatory
  Rehabilitating an American Treasure in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park