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Singapore Botanic Gardens. The orchid gardens where there are hundreds of different types of orchids. Worth a visit if visiting Singapore.
Fuqua Orchid House at the Atl Botanical Garden. I didn't see a species name for this, but it is one of my favorite orchids there.
These are Dad's orchids which he loved but cared for very little, so they loved him even more. Still flowering nicely over a decade later, 4 beautiful blooms this year all slightly different in size and hue.
I have several plants from family and friends who have crossed to the other side. Their flowers are part of the legacy that keeps them alive in my memory. I'm so grateful they shared their gardens with me so they can carry on bringing joy to my little corner.
Oh and thanks nature!!
"Flowers really do intoxicate me."
~ Vita Sackville-West
This is the terrestrial orchid Spathoglottis Plicata found from tropical and subtropical Asia to the western Pacific including Hawai. Also called the Philippine Orchid or Large Purple Orchid.
Le jardin d’Alicia, situé sur les hauteurs de Papeete, présente habituellement des fleurs de toutes sortes. Ces fleurs d'Orchidée Oncidium rosée en grande quantité sont belles à croquer.
I like how long lasting orchid flowers are, this potted orchid was given to us in early autumn about about 5 months ago, but it lasted all winter.
The last few minutes of sunshine pierced through the window, illuminating the flowers on my coffee table. I pointed the phone to include the black leather couch as a dark background to highlight the flower. Simple.
Sideways, in profile.
Cypripedium calceolus is a lady's-slipper orchid.
For nearly four centuries, gardeners and botanists have collected the species to near extinction: as early as 1629 – when the species was first documented by botanists – it was being collected for gardens, and such the uprooting havs continued ever since.
By the second half of the twentieth century, just a single plant survived in a secret site, following the loss of a second population near Leyburn that fell prey to collectors as late as 1956.
Only recently has the species' fortunes in Britain been reversed, following an introduction programme that has planted out cultivated seedlings in as many as 16 sites in a girdle across northern England, from Morecambe Bay to the Durham shores.
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The word Orchid derives from the Greek word 'orchis' which means testicle, after the appearance of the roots of plants of the genus 'Orchis'. [wikipedia]