Tired of winter? Want to smell flowers? Touch a butterfly? Maybe even perspire a bit? Then, you need to head to Ohio’s tropical attractions in Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati.
Cleveland Botanical Garden’s Eleanor Armstrong Smith Glasshouse is an 18,000-square-foot crystalline conservatory – the only one of its kind. Open year-round, the Glasshouse is home to two of the world’s most exotic, fragile, and unique environments: the spiny desert of Madagascar and the lush, butterfly-filled cloud forest of Costa Rica.
Franklin Park Conservatory in Columbus offers beautiful and diverse climates, including an arid Desert, a tropical Rainforest, a cool Himalayan Mountain, and a lush Pacific Island Water Garden. The Conservatory owns a signature collection of Dale Chihuly glass artwork.
Krohn Conservatory is one of Cincinnati’s treasures. It features a Bonsai, Conservatory, Orchid, Tropical, and Perennial gardens and nature collections. The collection represents more than 1,000 species of plants from rainforests to deserts.
