The Orchid Show: Key West Contemporary

Get an inside peek at New York Botanical Garden’s beloved Orchid Show

In this video , Marc Hachadourian , curator of the orchid collection at the New York Botanical Garden , give an overview of the NYBG 12th annual Orchid Show . The theme was Key West Contemporary , and Marc give a behind - the - scenes front into how a theme like this comes to life .

The Orchid Show has the usual array of thousands of blossom orchid , but this year ’s design is based on a contemporary garden in Key West , Florida . In the past times , we ’ve work on with many well - know landscape interior decorator — everyone from Patrick Blanc to Raymond Jungles . This year , we opt to figure out with Raymond Jungles again and to base the show on his signature tropical garden intent that have a contemporary style . We took some of his signature factor such as pools , water features , and the bold habit of tropical leafage for colour , pattern , and grain as the theoretical account to overlay with thousands of flower orchid .

One of the large secret is how we do it — the secret behind the “ smoke and mirror ” of the Orchid Show . The provision for the show starts years in advance , during which we ’re ferment on ideas for purpose , the layout , and structure that we will build to frame all the beautiful orchids in and around .

From there , we begin working with our horticultural team in the conservatory and in the Nolen Glasshouses to time the orchids to flower at just the correct time . It requires manipulation of sparkle , water , temperature , and plant food , while understand what each group of orchids needs so as to hasten up or retard down the bloom process . By bring in some of the orchidaceous plant from specialist nurseries all over the United States as well as specimen from our year - rhythm collection , we are able-bodied to get a beautiful diversity of plants for the Orchid Show .

Once we have all of those orchids ready to go , the installation can take up to two weeks to dispatch . The show gallery , where we have the main body of the Orchid Show , is a vacuous slate with nothing but a few lasting tree when we commence . We have to transform that space into a present-day , tropic garden . The infinite becomes almost unrecognizable as the conservatory , hiding every element of the structure and giving looker the feeling that they ’ve traveled out of New York and into somewhere alien .

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