I went back to the next to last day of the orchid show yesterday. It was so crowded on Saturday that we made it about a third of the way t...

  It is striking that something as complex as an orchid can come from a simple, symmetrical bud, or, in this case, a cascade of them. It mak...

  Orchids come in an astounding variety of shapes, sizes and colors. I'm no botanist (where I grew up the ground cover was cement and as...

  Orchids share a basic morphology but come in lots of variations. The range at the Botanical Garden's annual show is bewildering. There...

  A similarly shaped orchid with a different color scheme. I bumped up the saturation and contrast to see what would happen.                ...

I don't know much about orchids other than that they are epiphytes and sometimes look, um, provocative. This looks like the same variety...

  Time for a change. The annual orchid show is nearing the end of its February run at the Missouri Botanical Garden. We wanted to get there ...