Orchid Mecca - Orchid Board

Graehstone · #1 12-31-2007, 06:37 PM

I was wondering if any of you thought that there is a place that you would consider to be Orchid Mecca, be it a particular nursery or botanical garden or show or what have you.
With the WOC coming up, I am sure that many of you will be able to see (those that are going of course) Orchids that you otherwise would not have the pleasure of meeting eye to stamins, lol.
If you could visit just one place, where would that be?

cb977 · #2 12-31-2007, 08:51 PM

The most stunning place I've seen so far was the tour of R.F. Orchids in Homestead Florida...the place is spectacular! I advise anybody that will be in the area to call for the tour schedule and make it a point to get in on one. The nursery alone is quite amazing but the full tour is something you will never forget!

Graehstone · #3 01-01-2008, 11:33 AM

Personally I would love to see the Atlanta Georgia Botanical Gardens. I have heard from numerous folks that this place is just too cool to miss, that one and the Huntington Botanical Gardens here in California, the wife has been to this one several times for Orchid shows and says that it's a very beautiful place to see.
As far as nurseries go (other than the one where my wife works) I would have to say the most awesome nursery that I have ever had the fortune to visit (I was a buyer from them for yet another nursery) is in Salinas California and probably known to most of you, or at least to those that read the book "Orchid Fever" by Eric Hansen, and that would be the Terry Roots Orchid Zone.
There are a few private collections that I have also had the fortune to have been invited to see that just blew me away.
And I am not even going to go into which countries I would have loved to crawl around in searching for new stuff ... or old stuff, I couldn't care less, just so I get to crawl through the jungle lol (not something I am physically able to do anymore) and get bit by all kinds of neato critters and ... and ... well, you know, stuff.

Ross · #4 01-01-2008, 12:07 PM

I would say Rosim's greenhouse

cb977 · #5 01-01-2008, 12:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Ross

I would say Rosim's greenhouse

Now, THERE is a great choice!!! Way to go, Ross!