Photos of the New York Botanical Gards Orchid Show

[Tindomul]

Originally Posted by Bud

Did you see the 2 ton Grammatophylum ? Thats the one that always gets me in awe...

No I didn't. But I think thats at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens not the New York Botanical Gardens.

[Tindomul]

Originally Posted by Gage

Love all the Oncidiums, I can't get enough Oncidiums!

There were a ton of Oncidiums and Miltoniums and Brassiums (Brassias I forgot), and all of their hyrbids.

[stefpix]

Thanks for posting so many photos! a tedious process to add one by one! I like the vertical walls and that variegated leaf Anthurium.

But from my point of view it is really disappointing that what gets shown by a Botanical Garden is a multitude hybrids that have more place in a florist's window rather than in a scientific institution. ANd the ticket is 20 $. not cheap. It would be nice to see natural habitats recreated. Like Caribbean bush or cloud forests, or orchids of Indochina or PNG and American orchids and so on. Mix the beauty of the flowers with some educational and conservation aspects.

At the Brooklyn Botanic Garden there is a wall with all these intermediate / cool species that are all tagged with a number that corresponds to their name and there are quite a few impressive species like now 2 Ansellia africanas in bloom whose form is very distinct one from the other.

I am interested to see how things grow in nature rather than floral arrangements. One does not have to exclude the other, but not sure. What was your impression Tindomul?

[bellini girl]

Tx Tindomul for sharing your Made me feel like I was at the show

[RedOrchid]

It was beautiful thanks

[Tindomul]

NYBG makes a good showing of other plants, ex: they have a collection of tropical blueberries and they try to educate the puplic about them while showing off their beauty. I too am dissapointed by the over abunance of hybrids. I wish they could do something a little more scientific.

[Rowangreen]

Not had time to look through all of this post yet, as I have to go do some work! But thanks! Great pics.

Wow! That was an amazing display. I wish I could be there.

[Rowangreen]

How long is this exhibit going on for?

I'm wondering how hard it would have been to get blooming species specimen plants. Thinking about it, at London last week many of the hybrids on display were available for sale, but most of the species specimens were going home with the owners! Perhaps they could only have done it by getting some of the major nurseries involved, which would have meant bringing that commercial side into it?

Just speculating... agree it would have been nice if they'd have had at least some areas displaying natural plants. And by the sound of it better labelling would have been good too.

It still looks rather fabulous though... and having recently done London (not so well as you...) I can vouch for editing, sorting and putting up the pictures being a pain!

[stefpix]

I also thought that would be harder to get many species in bloom. I would not expect the whole orchid show to feature that, but at least have a section where species and natural environments are shown. I just think that would be the duty of a scientific institution. But my impression of the NYBG is that does not cater much to that. They had the Mario Batali herb garden, the Martha Stewart something. I have never been to the Missouri BG nor Kew but I guess these two have a more scientific mission. But given the size and the location I would expect the NYBG to offer a more academic approach.

I visited the Montreal Botanic Garden and I remember they were showing mostly species mounted on tree branches and were mostly lableled