At the Plant Market

 After my walk through "Viveros de Coyoacán", the large green area that serves as a government tree nursery, there was another place I wanted to visit.  At the northeast corner of "Viveros" and just outside its gate is a place which is called the Permanent Exhibition of Floriculture and Nursery... a pretentiously long name for a plant market.  Here a number of Mexico City growers sell a wide variety of live indoor and outdoor plants. Since I eventually want to have some house plants in my apartment, I wanted to check this place out.

There are several nicely landscaped areas to give homeowners ideas for their outdoor gardens.

There was a beautiful display of azalea bushes in bloom, which, I later read, they have every February.  The bushes are all in pots and are available for sale.

I don't think that I have ever seen a yellow azalea before.

Although the place is not extremely large, I probably spent at least an hour, wandering around and looking at the enormous assortment of all kinds of plants.  I was familiar with many of them, and I had some of them in my house in Ohio.  All of the plants here seemed to be of very high quality; they all looked very healthy.

These Christmas cacti are like the one I had in Ohio.  They don't seem to know what time of year it is.  They are ready to bloom.

A variety of herbs... rosemary, basil, and, obviously, oregano.

A spectacular orchid

I have never tried to grow orchids before, but I am tempted to give it a try.

Bonsai trees

Cyclamens

A bromeliad

You might remember the monster rubber tree plant that I had in Ohio.  Well, I have no intention of having one in the limited space of my apartment!

I was sorely tempted to buy a small plant or two, but I had a long walk back to the apartment.  Perhaps one weekend Alejandro and I can drive there, and I can begin my indoor garden.