{"id":1162,"date":"2013-12-04T12:15:38","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T12:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2015-01-09T15:42:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T20:42:44","slug":"the-greenest-garden-of-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2013\/12\/04\/the-greenest-garden-of-pittsburgh\/","title":{"rendered":"Phipps Conservatory, the greenest garden of Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last week, it was about gloom, this week it\u2019s all about bloom. Last week, we featured the Thanksgiving snowstorm of 1950, this week we bring to you the black-and-white photographs of the ever-green Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens from our archive.<\/p>\n

We found many photographs of the annual Flower Shows hosted in the \u201cgreenest\u201d facilities in the world. In 1966, during the 72nd annual Flower Show the \u201cAlice in Wonderland\u201d display captivated the public\u2019s admiration. \u201cThe scene, depicting Alice standing in a\u00a0 garden of giant toadstools, was done in hundreds of daisy and pom pom chrysanthemums.\u201d The show was considered to be one of the finest floral exhibitions in the United States, according to the Post-Gazette. The centerpiece of the 1968 annual Flower Show was Humpty Dumpty made of chrysanthemums with a giant story book for found visitors.<\/p>\n

In 1964, the Flower Show featured something that looked like an ancestor of the Giant Rubber Duck made of flowers, but then after reading the cutline, we realized that it was a giant dove.<\/p>\n

Phipps Conservatory has been in Pittsburgh for a long time. It was founded in 1893 by steel and real-estate magnate Henry Phipps as a gift to the City of Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Black-and-white photographs of the ever-green Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens from our archive.<\/p>\n

Look at the picturesPhipps Conservatory, the greenest garden of Pittsburgh<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[945],"tags":[989,1052],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/tumblr_mx95b8cIqi1rr5swxo1_1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C1064&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29,"url":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2014\/12\/03\/the-odyssey-of-henry-phipps-jr\/","url_meta":{"origin":1162,"position":0},"title":"The odyssey of Henry Phipps Jr.","date":"December 3, 2014","format":"gallery","excerpt":"The quiet philanthropist gave the elegant, lush greenhouse to the city of Pittsburgh in 1893.","rel":"","context":"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/tumblr_nfz2hiQk0D1rr5swxo2_1280.jpg?fit=946%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6280,"url":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2016\/01\/06\/striking-twice-with-a-lightning-story\/","url_meta":{"origin":1162,"position":1},"title":"Striking twice with a lightning story","date":"January 6, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Remember our story about the trolley that was hit by a bolt in 1950? 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