Orchids in an outside plant box
By Delonix1
14 Sep, 2010
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These outdoor boxes are located throughout the San Diego Zoo. You can see the plants but not touch them. Soon an endless variety of orchids will be blooming - as Fall through early Spring is the best time for flowering orchids here. Photo taken Sept. 9, 2010.
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Tugbrethil:
They're Vanda orchids.
16 Sep, 2010
There gorgeous ,but why not allowed to touch ? is it because they are very delicate ?
16 Sep, 2010
Mushybanna:
If they allowed the many thousands of visitors to touch these orchids there would be nothing left. lol! : > ) (it's true though) There's lots of other orchids growing in the trees there...they are out of reach also.
16 Sep, 2010
In nurseries they call it "finger blight". There used to be a saguaro cactus planted in the conservatory in the New York Botanical Gardens. People kept poking it with their umbrellas to see if it was really real. It eventually got a disease from this constant wounding, and died!
16 Sep, 2010
Wow! they are so much so beautiful that I just want do not want to navigate away from this page.
18 Sep, 2010
Tugbrethil:
Yes, finger blight is common in most nurseries and botanical gardens. : > )
18 Sep, 2010
Camillia:
lol! Soon I will posting many other orchids...as most orchids species bloom in fall and winter here.
18 Sep, 2010
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Are those Vandaenopsis, Delonix?
15 Sep, 2010