Humidity is high, light is filtered, and the air is filled with sounds of falling water and tropical birds. Cross over a central pond filled with Koi, goldfish, and turtles. Look around and experience three levels of vegetation.

Large fig trees provide the upper canopy with fruit-bearing banana and papaya trees that reach up to the sun. A giant anthurium, a white bird of paradise and dracaenas inhabit the second story while ferns, pilea, spider plants, and peperomia cover the ground.

Find the large-leaved aroid, Monstera deliciosa, climbing through the limbs of the Fiddle-leaf Fig tree. Cycads, a plant species older than the dinosaurs, also flourish in this room along with members of the Palm family...the Lady, Fishtail, Fan, and Canary Island Date palm.

A room lush in sounds, textures, shapes and shadows; a trip through the tropics right here in Oak Park.