[OGD] Not allowing photography at Botanical Gardens

Hi, I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on why major public botanical gardens have started imposing no-photo rules? I have run across at least three, in all areas of the country, of very large stature, that have no-photo rules of varying degrees. One has a no professional photo rule of any

RE: [OGD] Not allowing photography at Botanical Gardens

Hi Eric -- Can you let us know which gardens? I cannot imagine what kind of enforcement they can impose. Check your camera at the gate? There are so many people with cameras -- isn't that part of the enjoyment of going to a garden? You can take a memory with you. Li'l frog Sent:

[OGD] D. Kuniko , = D.miyakei x D. victoria-reginae

Shirlee, Thanks for jogging my memory. That's the one. Peter O'Byrne Singapore Peter, I believe the primary hybrid you speak of is D. Kuniko a cross of D.miyakei x D. victoria-reginae and the photo does look like it could be either one. Cheers back at you. Shirlee Denver

[OGD] AW: Orchids Digest, Vol 6, Issue 405

Reply to Paph. crosses - Orchids Digest, Vol 6, Issue 405 Dear Marty, there is no cross registered between Paph. supardii and Paph. praestans Normally you must look for Paph. glanduliferum, because praestans will by accepted by Registrar only as glanduliferum. In the future you can look also at

Re: [OGD] Not allowing photography at Botanical Gardens

Eric, The gardens that we frequent only have restrictions on tripods in the greenhouse so we bought a mono-pod, not quite as good but better than nothing. Paul LeBlanc -- Original message -- Hi, I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on why major public

[OGD] Caladenia xanthochila - unearthed

University of Melbourne Conservation and Land Management students have discovered previously unrecorded samples of one of the Wimmera's endangered native orchids. see : http://uninews.unimelb.edu.au/articleid_1755.html Regards, Viateur ___

[OGD] Re: Not allowing photography at Botanical Gardens

Hi, I didn't post which gardens because my intention is to not shine a light specifically on any one garden, possibly alienating and/or upsetting the garden, but to explore the larger issue of why this is happening. Thanks, -Eric in SF www.orchidphotos.org

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Orchids, ... are a $2 billion a year global business. Taiwan, which already produces about a quarter of the world's orchids, aims to turn orchids into an everyday item, using the genus of orchids known as phalaenopsis... Orchids often begin in labs in the US or Japan, are shipped by air in