Public Greenhouse
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Arriving at MBG...
A snowy welcome!
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Some of the group...
anxious to get inside.
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Lise Gobeille
Our host and guide
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Epiphytes in the main display
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A large specimen
about 1m square
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Another specimen plant
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The same plant
in closeup.
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A bulbophylum
specimen plant
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Another view of the
same bulbophylum plant
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Another magnificent
large bulbophylum plant
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dendrobium guerreroi
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lycaste cruenta
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dendrobium c.k al
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A specimen plant of
mormolyca ringens
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The same plant
in closeup
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A display of phals
suitable for photos!
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A large stanhopea
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Bulbophyllum auratum
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Cattleya aurantiaca
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Phal Brother Elizabeth
a beautiful spotted yellow flower.
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Production greenhouses
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Laeliocattleya Ptarmigan Ridge "Mendenhall"
an impressive plant!
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Brassolaeliocatt Hunabu Dignity
in closeup
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Closeup of schoenorchis gemmata
flower spikes
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A large laelia anceps
specimen plant
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Another laelia anceps specimen
in an almost natural setting!
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laelia anceps flowers
in closeup
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An impressive specimen plant
of epidendrum mirabile
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The same plant
in closeup
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A wall of specimen plants
with Julie behind
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gastrorchis lutea
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The paph section
under a netting
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The warm greenhouse
with misting in progress
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Paph Borburn
Flower is 5 inches across!
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Another nice paph
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Adaglossum Summit 'Frenchtown'
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Bletilla
a large flower on a small plant!
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Epidendrum stamfordianum var leeeanum
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Maxillaria densa
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Miltonia Aileen Lawless
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Odontoglossum praestans
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Butterfly house
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Marika
the butterfly guide
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Butterfly lunch...
a nice fruit snack
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A butterfly posing...
an elusive subject!
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Atlas moth emerging
an impressive guy!
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A caterpillar
munching on leaves
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Other attractions
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Cactus house
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An unusual cactus
lepismium ianthothele
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Who knew that a jade plant
could flower?
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A Chinese mountain scene
with tiny bonsai trees
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Le Paradis des Orchidees
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Awards won by Le Paradis
from Ottawa Orchid Society
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Awards from other Shows
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General view of the greenhouse...
very impressive!
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Phals by the thousands...
as far as the eye can see!
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Our gracious host
Sylvie Paquette
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Questions and answers
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Phals in spots
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Whites
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and pinks
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But not all are phals...
angraecum eburnum 'superbum'
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epidendrum ilense
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epidendrum pseudepidendrum 'album'
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More questions...
from us
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...and answers
from Sylvie
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Darwin's famous plant
angraecum sesquepedale
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