Thanks to Gordon for the correction. It must have been the botanic garden in Hobart, which I visited on another trip to the Antipodes. Jane McGary On 1/10/2021 6:53 PM, Samuel via pbs wrote: > There is a Subantarctic cold house in Hobart , Tasmania , Australia , > we visited there when living in Tasmania , amazing to see plants in a > replicated house , quite cold with the fans working. > > Gordon Julian , Highfields , Queensland. > > On 11/01/2021 12:19 pm, Jane McGary via pbs wrote: >> You want an air-conditioned greenhouse? Years ago, and I think it was >> in the botanical garden at Christchurch, New Zealand (someone correct >> me if I'm misremembering), I visited a Subantarctic House, which had >> been designed to replicate and display some remarkable and mostly >> quite large plants from the subantarctic islands. It was a dome, with >> a boardwalk which zig-zagged around inside. The walls were painted >> with scenes of the islands, and the plants installed in beds in front >> of the scenes, quite realistically. It was very cold, and huge fans >> blew at a rate imitating the Roaring Forties. The plants looked great >> and many were in flower. A great way to see this amazing flora >> without dying of seasickness! >> _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>