At night, the blooms seem to vibrate transcendently. You smell dense aromas of the chocolate, vanilla, jasmine, and lemon scents of the dancing-lady orchids. Especially during these Orchid Evenings, the senses delight.
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New York Botanical Garden Orchid Show 2018 Features Belgian Floral Artist Daniël Ost
The NYBG presents another spectacular celebration of one of the most alluring, sensual, and mysterious of flower exotics, the orchid.
Read More »Orchid Evenings at the New York Botanical Garden’s ‘Orchid Show: Thailand’
We have Thailand to thank for its prodigious contributions to the orchid universe. And its cultural mystique is unforgettable.
Read More »The Orchid Show: Thailand – New York Botanical Garden’s 15th Orchid Exhibit
The variety of orchids is stellar; one appreciates so many intricate shapes and flamboyant hues of the hybrids landscaped with ferns, bromeliads, palms, ficus, bamboo, mat dai and more. It is a festival for the eyes.
Read More »EXCLUSIVE: Orchid Show Part 2: New York Botanic Garden’s Marc Hachadourian on Orchidelirium
'I see it as horticultural theater. The way exhibitions are, there is tremendous complexity. It’s like when the curtain goes up the set changes.'
Read More »Orchid Show Part 1: New York Botanic Garden’s Marc Hachadourian on Orchidelirium
That was the standard practice of the explorers in the Victorian period: 'I paid you thousands of dollars to go far off into the forests of India to bring me back this plant. I want this plant.'
Read More »An Orchid Evening to Remember at the New York Botanical Garden
While orchids' majesty is best experienced in the daytime, their exotic mystery is best sensed in the evening.
Read More »NYBG Orchidelirium: Orchid Intrigue And The Deadly Quest For Extraordinary Profits
"Orchidelirium" is a bedazzling, live horticultural spectacular, a sterling exhibition to celebrate the NYBG's 125th Anniversary.
Read More »Interview: Greenhouse Director Marc Hachadourian on the 2015 Orchid Show at the New York Botanical Garden
The curator of NYBG's famous orchid show talks about the incredible diversity of orchids and his 15 years working with them.
Read More »The 13th Annual Orchid Show – A Magnificent Herald of Spring at the NYBG
The orchid chandeliers are a vibrant multi-layered overflow of pinks, violets, whites, tawny oranges, yellows, purples, reds. It is enough to mesmerize and gladden the most sorrowful and dour of hearts.
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