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from the Atlanta Botanical Garden ( Fuqua Orchid Center)... orchid paphiopedilum
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The Fuqua Orchid Center is home to the largest collection of species orchids on permanent display in the U.S. and hosts a wintertime display known as Orchid Daze. Its unique Tropical High Elevation House provides the correct habitat for montane orchids and companion plants from around the equator at elevations of 6,000 to 10,000 feet. An Air Washer System, technology adapted from the textile industry, was combined with traditional greenhouse heating and cooling to create this environment, and allows rare orchids to thrive ...
A highlight of any trip to Atlanta Botanical Garden is a tour through the Dorothy Chapman Fuqua Conservatory. Inside this beautiful and inovative structure are collections of exotic tropical plants such as palms, cycads, ferns, orchids and epiphytes (air plants). There is also a fantastic collection of insectivorous plants and "ant plants".
from the Atlanta Botanical Garden ( Fuqua Orchid Center)... orchid paphiopedilum
Copyright: © 2011 Melissa Goodman. All Rights Reserved.
Please add any personal comments you may have on the image ...
no longer accepting cut-and-paste group comments/images ... I delete them now ... Thanks!
You can now view my photographs here:
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The Fuqua Orchid Center is home to the largest collection of species orchids on permanent display in the U.S. and hosts a wintertime display known as Orchid Daze. Its unique Tropical High Elevation House provides the correct habitat for montane orchids and companion plants from around the equator at elevations of 6,000 to 10,000 feet. An Air Washer System, technology adapted from the textile industry, was combined with traditional greenhouse heating and cooling to create this environment, and allows rare orchids to thrive ...
A highlight of any trip to Atlanta Botanical Garden is a tour through the Dorothy Chapman Fuqua Conservatory. Inside this beautiful and inovative structure are collections of exotic tropical plants such as palms, cycads, ferns, orchids and epiphytes (air plants). There is also a fantastic collection of insectivorous plants and "ant plants".