"orchids... from February to April... collectors and growers will be flaunting them in the next three months in shows around the world [or parts of it !]. ... Robert Fuchs, a third-generation orchid grower in Homestead, Fla. ... viewed by many in the field as a leading expert. ... youll want to fly off to the renowned orchid shows at the Tokyo Dome in Japan or Kew Gardens in Britain, both running in February and early March...
one of the best shows in the United States will be in Miami the first week in March... planners expect 15,000 visitors... Fuchs... This year his design team is doing Margaritaville after Jimmy Buffett, he said. Were building an old Key West house with porches. Were going to populate the exhibit with literally thousands of orchids. ... in San Francisco... the Pacific Orchid Exposition takes place in mid-February... We enjoy that show very much because we see very well-grown plants that you dont see anywhere else, Andrea Niessen, an orchid propagator in Colombia... Shell be taking choice specimens to San Francisco some of them descendants of plants she inherited from her grandfather, who emigrated to Colombia from Germany after World War I. You dont get rich, Ms. Niessen said. Youll never make a dollar from it [really ?]. The love of the orchid is the main thing. Not all orchid shows are commercial. The one at the New York Botanical Garden from late February until April has the character of a museum exhibit, offering plenty of opportunity to learn as well as admire. ... Anna Chai, a 70-year-old amateur grower from Belmont, Calif.... exhibits at Pacific Orchid Exposition. ... In her backyard are three decades worth of orchids 2,000 in all... First I was crazy, she said. Then I was obsessed. Now, I feel like a slave. [how true !] article URL : http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/16/travel/escapes/16ahead.html ************ Regards, VB _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
