"Orchid Mania, the annual orchid show... at Cleveland Botanical Garden. This year's theme, ``At Home with Orchids,'' is being carried out by interior designers and floral designers who have created room vignettes incorporating the... blooms. ... Visitors... enter through a ``great hall'' -- actually the botanical garden's main lobby, which has been transformed... the concept of a baronial hall... given... a contemporary, abstract twist...
off-white voile... fabric... covers tables that hold tuteurs, garden structures that typically are used to support climbing plants but in this case are studded with... live orchids. Columns topped with more orchids are positioned throughout the room... The great hall leads visitors into the botanical garden's building, where room vignettes are set up throughout... [gender ?] Orange Profusion, with its unusual clusters of yellow blooms and roots that hang down from the pot... Because it's a hybrid that hasn't been reproduced, it's the only plant of its type that exists [really ?]... Most of the orchids will be for sale after the show closes, at or below what the garden paid for them. The sale starts... March 25" article URL : http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/living/16774281.htm?source=rss&channel=ohio_living **************** Regards, VB _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
