Chicago Botantical Gardens: Asia in Bloom

The Chicago Botanical Gardens had an Asian Orchid Show this year. It was amazing. I'm unsure if this is something they do every year or if it was something special this year. They had Orchids from all over the world, but mostly Asia and the South Pacific.  It was beautiful. I love botanical gardens. I am completely unable to grow or keep plants alive. My own garden and yard is disgraceful, but I love walking through greenhouses. Nothing on earth smells like that, except, well, earth.


The Orchid Show was amazing. There were hundreds of different Orchids all over the entire place. Every where I looked there was some exotic orchid. Sometimes they were in groups and occasionally single flowers. Sometimes they looked like they have faces or lips. There were so many colors as well. There was no end to it.

The weather in Chicago in February is not beneficial to growing anything except in a greenhouse.  When I went, was really cold and windy, but the greenhouse was warm and full of life. In order to get to the orchids we had to walk outside, which I'm sure is lovely in the summer. It being so close to Lake Michigan, one of the Greatest Lakes in the world, makes it an ideal summer spot to stop.