by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden When most people think of orchids, they don’t think of something that’s kid-friendly. We’re about to change that! We want to let Richmond Families know, it’s not just the Children’s Garden that is kid -friendly at Lewis Ginter. We’ve put a whole family-focus on Orchids Galore!, [...]
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Posted in Orchids on Feb 14th, 2013
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Here’s just a snippet of what you’ll see when you come to Orchids Galore! at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden: Starting on Valentine’s Day, and running ’til the end of March, you are in for a treat as we delight your senses with colors, smells and [...]
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Text & photo by Kelley Deegan, Horticulture Intern, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden This blazingly orange orchid, currently blooming in the Conservatory, shines bright with a pop of scarlet to chase away those winter blues. Lalieocattleya Fire Island ‘Fiery’ HCC/AOS is a hybrid species derived from two closely related genera: Laelia and Cattleya. Orchids of these [...]
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by Grace Chapman, Director of Horticulture, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Updated Jan 24, 2013 — see notes at the bottom. This year for our Orchids Galore! exhibition at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, we are focusing on a rainbow of colors. The exhibition opens on February 14th, so I won’t give away all of the secrets just yet, [...]
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Posted in Orchids, Uncategorized on Sep 18th, 2012
Text & Photos by Erica Borey, VCU Museum Studies Intern, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden As you may have read in our early summer blog post on Reichenbachia, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden holds one of the only known copies of the Imperial Edition of Reichenbachia, a collection of late-19th-century chromolithographs depicting various orchid specimens. Unfortunately, due to years of [...]
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Posted in Orchids, Uncategorized on Jun 8th, 2012
Text & Photos by Erica Borey, VCU Museum Studies Intern, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden has been very fortunate in the intended donation of a rare and almost complete collection of 19th century orchid prints — the Reichenbachia. As you may have read about on our last orchid-related blog post, Frederick Sander, “The [...]
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Posted in Orchids on Apr 14th, 2012
by Victoria Waiton, Membership Assistant, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden On my most recent trip to the Conservatory, I tried to remember what it was like to see a cascade of Oncidium orchids for the first time, and wondered what it would feel like to walk through a forest and suddenly come across the [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 29th, 2011
By Beth Monroe, Public Relations Director, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Although we’re always focused on “what’s next” here at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, at the end of the year it’s fun to take a few minutes and look back at activities and accomplishments. It’s not an exhaustive list by any means — just a quick [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 4th, 2011
By Beth Monroe, Public Relations and Marketing Director, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Richmond orchid enthusiast Dr. Arthur Burke is one of the the forces behind Orchids Galore! . An offer of plants from his personal collection helped make the display possible and he also kindly loaned the Garden his copy of Reichenbachia antique chromolithographs for [...]
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