NYBG Annual Orchid Show

The New York Botanical Garden is currently hosting its annual Orchid Show in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. The theme of this year's show is Singapore, in honor of the country that exports more than 10 million sprays of orchids per year. The flowers were so beautiful, magical, and so fragrant. I had a fantastic time yesterday and it's a must see! Hurry, it will only be there until April 6.

If nature ever showed her playfulness in the formation of plants, this is visible in the most striking way among the orchids.
They take on the form of little birds, of lizards, of insects. They look like a man, a woman, sometimes like a clown who excites our laughter. They represent the image of a lazy tortoise, a melancholy toad, and agile, ever-chattering monkey. Nature has formed orchid flowers in such a way that, unless they make us laugh, they surely excite our greatest admiration.
-Jacob Breynius, 17th-century German botanist, Exoticarum Aliarumque Minus Cognitarum Plantarum, 1678