LACPS meet pics!

[thez_yo]

LACPS meet pics! (BANDWIDTH WARNING!!!)

Well, I decided to go up for a LACPS meet (and unfortunately the traffic made the journey back 2X as long as it was supposed to be so I just got home) but I did bring back a whole slew of pics! Mostly from the tour around the botanical garden cuz um...that was the most of the meeting XD.

(this is a vid of the guy talking about the fern wall it's clickable...)

vanilla climbing up a tree

 

[thez_yo]

"cloud forest" starts here...it's in a separate, cooler and mistier room..(it's the other side of that nep vine glass wall a couple up)

 

[thez_yo]

...and thus starts the Sarr/vft habitat room..

....and I went back into the cloud room again because I like the mist

 

[larry]

Cool, tons o pics. Is that you in one of the shots?

 

[thez_yo]

oops...hope they don't have a no-touchey policy..

...what sarrs eat...there's bugs in there and like, wasp heads

*** and behind the scenes tour!!! ***
u.longi:

fuzzy cuz the misters were going off

what is this?!

 

[thez_yo]

 

[thez_yo]

the cooler of the two greenhouses we saw starts here (the previous pics were all from the first greenhouse..)

begonia flowers

 

[thez_yo]

fuzzy

and I think some of you like the flowers that come out of the center of the leaves?

 

[thez_yo]

…again, sorry about blurry pics, it was misty XD

the above from the side..

(I'm a sucker for bell and teacup and saucer shapes hehe..)

and some nice moss on a pot:

these were sooo tiny my camera couldn't focus on them but so cute and blue!

 

[thez_yo]

…and from the side cuz it was pretty:

and back to the first greenhouse to walk through to get back

for all you ping lovers out there:

**and back into the depths of the big tropical room at the gardens**

..supposedly a coffee bush…YAY coffeee

 

[thez_yo]

…and from the top cuz it's interesting looking, and was taller than me and I wanted to see it XD

aristolochia!!

think this thing used to have flowers

the whole vanilla vine

leaving the building with the nice mountains in the background

and OMG the traffic I sat in for 4 hours!!! XD

 

[lizasaur]

Absolutely stunning shots, Thez! Just phenomenal- looks like you had an amazing time!
Thanks so much for sharing

 

[x916krew]

Those were some great pics.. thanks for sharing

 

[larry]

Epic photo thread, this must be a record or something. Did you check out the rest of the gardens after the meeting?

 

[swords]

what is this?!

It's a giant Bulbophyllum can't recall the species, possibly Bulbo phalaenopsis or Bulbo macrobulbon
too bad it wasn't blooming it'd be easier to tell then.

 

[pappydew]

best pic thread ever! I so want one of my walls in my room to be replaced with that stuff for epiphytic plants

Man, I wish something even close to that was near me...

 

[swords]

Josh (I feel like I'm talking to myself!) have you been to the plant conservatory greenhouses at the Como Zoo? On the last weekend of January is the MN orchid show during the Winter Carnival. Lots of vendors to spend money at as well!

-Josh

 

[pappydew]

Unfortunately I'm at school during the St. Paul winter carnival and not really an orchid enthusiast...any CP's though?

It's been a while since I've been to the conservatory there though.

 

[swords]

Last January almost every display had at least one Ping but there was maybe only a few common retail greenhouse Nep hybrids (miranda, ventrata, etc). I don't know if the Orchid Society has a limit on how many non-orchids can be in a display. I have a feeling they probably would.

The new fern room at the Como Zoo conservatory is awesome I'll see if I can find my pics of that for the fern forum.

 

[chibae]

Absolutely gorgeous, I love botanical gardens. Thanks for the close ups of the orchids, esp. the phals, phrags and cute little dracula.
Your pictures gave me a very enjoyable tour with my morning coffee.