Growing up, mostly in South Florida, Phaan Howng tended to a personal collection of orchids with the curiosity of someone who might spy one of the plants at Home Depot and decide to take it home on a ...

An annual orchid show at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis generally offers visitors welcome tropical respite during some of winter’s coldest months, though we crave no balmy relief from this ...

Providing a small respite from the cold, dreary winter, a new exhibition at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., presents the orchids of Latin America at their finest. On ...

An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it. — Confucius The Chinese sage and philosopher perhaps waxed egocentric in that quote. Orchids couldn't care ...