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The Bartlett Arboretum & Gardens

Greenhouse

Greenhouse

The Bartlett greenhouse serves both as a home to our permanent collection of cacti and succulents and as a propagation house to start and raise plants used in our garden displays and containers. As such visitors will find varying degrees of activity here during the year. In winter and early spring it is chock-a-block with starter trays and pots containing plants for the grounds, but in the high heat of summer most plants, other than the cacti and succulents, have been moved outdoors.

Staffed primarily by volunteers, the greenhouse also serves as the site of horticulture classes, children’s art classes, and our annual Winterbloom festival.

Donated to the Bartlett in 1974, after a useful life on another site, the greenhouse will be almost entirely reconstructed as part of the Master Plan adopted for the Bartlett, with construction due to begin in early spring 2006.