Orchid-iana
Friday, May 12, 2006 - 04:44 PM
For the orchid-loving listener who called it to ask for travel advice from guest Rudy Maxa, some fellow listeners wrote in with these suggestions:
Orchid Room
Phipps Conservatory
Pittsburgh
the best way to find orchids is trekking in Burma or any other
mountainous part of SE Asia.
Vietnam has many wonderful places, many off the beaten track and my
trek out of Sapa. in NW Vietnam, near the border with Vietnam was
through fabulous scenery, staying in a house above the clouds with
a white buffalo undreneath. The best orchids, growing au naturel off
the sides of trees were in Burma. But travel there is fraught. The
Lonely Planet is the best start for all of this.
Your caller should go to the American Museum of Natural History's butterfly exhibit, which is a greenhouse set up in the Museum filled with real, live butterflies and also with orchids. You spend an hour there and it's a wonderful minivacation.
The orchid seeker should consider south Florida. You can stay somewhere lovely in Miami, or South Beach and make a day trip to Robert Fuchs Orchids, which you can find on the Web. They sometimes offer teas and tours. If you are more adventurous, you can seek out some of the other growers mentioned in the Orchid Thief, but they are not in very beautiful settings.
Otherwise, try Hawaii.
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