Source: China Daily

02-23-2009 14:51

Special Report:   Tech Max

NEW YORK – Enough already with chilly gray winter. Time to pick up a bouquet of bright pink tulips and start thinking about spring.

In this Feb. 24, 2008 file photo Luca Santangeli gets a close up view of an arbor harboring dozens of orchids as he tours the New York Botanical Garden's orchid show on his father's shoulders in New York.[Agencies]

In many places, it will be weeks before daffodils and hyacinths start peeking through the ground, but there are plenty of flower shows to see in the meantime. Some are big annual events with themes that change every year, like the famous Philadelphia Flower Show at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, this year March 1-8 with a "Bella Italia" theme.

Other displays focus on one type of flower, like the various orchid shows that showcase the jungle plant's intense blooms at gardens and exhibit halls around the country.

One of those annual orchid shows held each year just as the cold weather starts to lift is at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx.

"We're in the last gray days of winter," said Marc Hachadourian, curator of NYBG's Glasshouse Collection. "What better place to be than a tropical paradise filled with exotic orchids?"

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