This summer you don’t need to scale San Francisco’s fabled hills to see grand gardens and butterflies. Stride up the gentle slope of Conservatory Valley and see Butterflies and Blooms Summer 2013 at The Conservatory Of Flowers in Golden Gate Park. Step into the west wing of the Conservatory Of Flowers and stand in a psychedelic swirl of intense color and spots and dots and stripes and the flying acrobatics of hundreds of pollinating Julias, Monarchs, Eastern Tiger Swallows, Zebra Longwings, Small Postmans, Common Buckeyes, Viceroys, Spicebush Swallowtails, Giant Cloudless Sulphurs, Cabbage Whites and Red Admirals on wing and alighting on plants and people without pause. Stand in awe of the chrysalis yielding the beautiful butterfly. The Conservatory Of Flowers was a kit purchased in England by San Francisco’s “Generous Miser” James Lick for his Santa Clara estate. Lick died in 1876 before he could complete the project. Wealthy San Franciscans purchased the Victorian “Theater of Nature” as a gift to San Francisco.