Attracted as I was of course to the waterfall-like nature of these beauties.

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Orchids

Akatsuka Orchid Gardens

Big Island, Hawaii, 2009

Have this orchid plant for about 4 years and its still flowering...

One of the many orchids at the National Orchid Centre Singapore

I am not well versed on orchids so let me know if this needs further identification. In the conservatory at the Anne Selby Botanical Gardens

Hong Kong, November 2006

Bloomed with 4 flowers

To see them growing in a natural habitat, not in a greenhouse, was special.

Orchid Annual Festival 2015 at Fairchild Botanical Garden

Sony a6000. Minolta Rokkor-X 50mm f1:1.7. Manual focus

Another compact cattleya. Nice and sweetly fragrant. Some fellow orchid society members were threatening to leave with it LOL!

(Pot. Netrasiri Starbright x Catt. Netrasiri Beauty)

Purchased from Cloud's Orchids in 2007.

Image © Roger Butterfield. Not to be used without express permission.

Heath Spotted-orchid (Dactylorhiza maculata).

Photographed at Agden Bog Nature Reserve on the western outskirts of Sheffield.

Orchids

Cymbidium,

Name unknown, won as prize at a Lions' Club in Tinui

The orchids look beautiful at the moment so I couldn't resist taking some photos :D

Orchid taken at the Orchid Festival at Kew Gardens, February 2007.

San Francisco Orchid Show

this variety has big 5 -7" flowers

Grandpa's Orchid

Fawn orchid with maroon & white throat

Taken in the Alexandra Gardens in Ararat Victoria - Home Of The Cymbidium Orchid.

Orchids

Orchid

Our Gorgeous Phalaenopsis(Moth) orchids pitcure #2

Clearing out a few old orchid show photos.

Part of Longwood Gardens Orchid Extravaganza

From the garden center. I almost bought this, but the temperature in my apartment is too warm.

Orchids in the glasshouses at RHS Wisley.

Hardware: Canon EOS 7D, EF 70-200mm f2.8L IS USM

Shot: ISO 100, 100mm, F2.8 1/320, Flash Disabled.

Tripod

Post: Lightroom v3 on iMac

Please see 320.

I missed the local orchid show last year, and while I was thinking about not making that mistake again I looked at some of the photos I took in 2009.

I like this lady, although she comes from a family that are not easy enough for my houseplant skills.

Orchid Paradise Siam Paragon Bangkok Taken with Nikon D80 and Tokina 100mm macro lens..pop-up flash fired..handheld...not cropped.

Every year in the first weekend of March, the orchids of Mendel University´s botanic gardens show their full beauty to the world. The traditional cultivation of orchids goes back to the early 20th Century.

The Orchid House at Peradeniya Botanical Gardens near Kandy, Sri Lanka.