A Trip to the Orchid Show at NYBG
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- March
- 14
As anyone within earshot of my desk well knows, I hate the month of March in New York and the rest of the Northeast.
I grew up in Louisville, then went to Duke and lived in Durham, NC, for a couple of years. In the South, March means spring at full bore — dogwoods, daffodils, azaleas, something newly in bloom every day.
But in New York? Soggy lawns and garden beds, mud, dirty leftover snow and WIND, my least favorite weather element.
So… I felt a field trip to the annual Orchid Show at the New York Botanical Garden was in order.
As readers of this blog know, I’m not much of an orchid fan. Here’s an earlier post about the show. And another.
But the show is truly gorgeous. I particularly like all of the Vandas.
Asian corsage orchid.
An aptly named pansy orchid.
The show runs until April 6. Here’s a link for more info.
Great tropical colors.
Some very unusual varieties.
But you know what? Here’s my favorite part of the whole show, and it’s all green. Look at this gorgeous moss.
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Bill Cary grew up in Louisville, Ky. His gardening was limited to growing parsley and impatiens on the windowsill of Manhattan walkups until the mid-1990s when he bought a rundown old chicken farm on 8 acres in the Hudson Valley. Now he spends his weekends chasing deer, hacking away at invasive shrubs and vines and wondering why he doesn`t have more meadow and less lawn.
