Visiting Moscow Botanic Garden in Winter!
The Botanic Garden of Moscow State University The Apothecaries' Garden 1/16/2018 So it's mid-January, and winter finally got the best of me. Even though I do have some plants of my own, it's not exactly a jungle in here (yet!), and I wanted to be surrounded by plants in the middle of this cold, unpleasant time of the year, even if just for a little while. I've been following this Botanic Garden on social media for quite a while now, and it looked like the perfect place for me to feed my love for greenery. Right now, during winter time, there's a festival going on with four exhibits/greenhouses open for visiting: an orchid/palm tree greenhouse, a succulent gallery, a "pond gallery" (plants that live in or by the water of any kind), and a bonsai exhibition. Needless to say, I sneaked into each of them! Now before I get to the pictures (and there's a lot of them), I wanted to say a few words about the Garden. First off, for only about $5, yo...