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Callaway Gardens in west Georgia is a 2500 acres of pine woodland, with lakes, hiking trails, cycling trails, floral gardens, indoor tropical orchid garden, tropical butterfly conservatory, and a bird of prey show.  During the spring acres are covered with azaleas.  A vegetable garden is where the PBS show, the Victory Garden, has been filmed.  A chapel next to a lake is available for weddings. 

The butterflies in the conservatory are all tropical in a tropical landscape.  The crystallis are air freighted from Asia and South America.  As the butterflies emerge from the crystallis , personnel release them into the observatory.  This is the same system used by the Butterfly Rainforest in Gainesville, Butterfly World in Coconut Creek, the Butterfly Conservatory

 

 in Key West, and the Butterfly House at Fairchild Gardens.  I am still looking for a butterfly conservatory that uses Florida native butterflies besides Lucas Butterfly Encounter at Lucas Nursery in Oviedo.