In its 20 years, the New York Botanical Garden’s Orchid Show has never had a female guest designer, Lily Kwong says— until now.
varietal). Sometimes waxy, sometimes fuzzy—a confusion of textures. Pillars of the most elaborate arrangements and the most basic corsage. A mainstay of high-art arranging and corporate lobbies. And that’s before you even get into the personalities of individual species. Consider, for instance, the, or slipper orchid, so named for the shoe-like appendage, called a labellum, into which pollinating insects crawl.
Throughout the show, there are poems, collected with the help of scholars and nestled on placards amid the plants, that offer opportunities for meditation. A quiet walkway, lined with shallow pools, among which a more restrained arrangement of white and pale green flowers has been installed, speaks to the concept of yin and yang, the soft mosses contrasting with the solidity of the stones.
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