One of Robert’s counter displays: this one includes a moist terrarium (far right) with humidity-loving plants; a still-life shell and stone terrarium (center) and a terrarium habitat with a live, active tarantula creeping about in it (far left).
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One of Robert’s counter displays: this one includes a moist terrarium (far right) with humidity-loving plants; a still-life shell and stone terrarium (center) and a terrarium habitat with a live, active tarantula creeping about in it (far left).
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Only a thin layer of glass between this tarantula and visitors!
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Only a thin layer of glass between this tarantula and visitors!
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One of many handsome display tables in the open-air main building
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One of many handsome display tables in the open-air main building
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Close-up view of venus fly trap plants in a tall, closed, cake-stand terrarium. Venus fly traps require bright light to thrive, although a closed glass terrarium + direct sunlight can = overheating. Perhaps Robert lifts the tops off the terrariums fro
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Close-up view of venus fly trap plants in a tall, closed, cake-stand terrarium. Venus fly traps require bright light to thrive, although a closed glass terrarium + direct sunlight can = overheating. Perhaps Robert lifts the tops off the terrariums fro
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Another glass cake stand terrarium
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Another glass cake stand terrarium
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A better view inside, with the top lifted off
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A better view inside, with the top lifted off
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Robert Price, founder and curator of the Puerto Vallarta Botanical Gardens – also natural history and plant buff and terrarium maker
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Robert Price, founder and curator of the Puerto Vallarta Botanical Gardens – also natural history and plant buff and terrarium maker
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The "natural history museum" wall and case outside the restrooms at the PV Botanical Garden – a great way to keep the gents occupied while the ladies avail themselves of the facilities!
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The "natural history museum" wall and case outside the restrooms at the PV Botanical Garden – a great way to keep the gents occupied while the ladies avail themselves of the facilities!
Another happy discovery I made at the Puerto Vallarta Botanical Gardens – fun terrariums made by the garden’s founder and curator, Robert Price. My photographs do not do them justice! Hopefully you can see beyond the abysmal light and reflective glass to gain a glimpse into the interior of these magical creations populated not only by Vallarta area plants, stone, and shells but also giant, colorful living beetles and spiders. One terrarium contained an enormous, hairy, and beau…
