Mounts Garden Sets Orchids Sale

Orchids at Mounts
(Photo courtesy of Mounts Botanical Garden)

(PRESS RELEASE)_(West Palm Beach, FL – September 1, 2022) Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden will be launching The Year of the Orchid--a series of special events and presentations—with the annual Exotics and Orchids Sale, September 17 and 18.
 
“This will be a year-long tribute to the popular flower in the city that was the original home to the American Orchid Society,” says Mounts Curator-Director Rochelle Wolberg. “Not only will we host a series of special horticultural exhibits, events and presentations, we will soon begin planting a thousand new orchid plants throughout the garden.”
 
The Year of the Orchid at Mounts Botanical Garden will begin on September 17-18 with:  
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Exotics & Orchids Sale
Saturday, 9 am to 4 pm (Members Only preview 8 am to 9 am)
Sunday, 9 am to 3 pm)
FREE for members; $15 for nonmembers (adults); $12 (seniors 65+, college students, and military with ID); $7 (ages 6-17).

The west end of the Garden will be filled with an amazing selection of orchids and exotic plants with more than 40 of South Florida’s premier vendors, including dazzling orchids, begonias, bromeliads, ferns, hoyas, aroids, garden art, baskets, and more, including

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+ Atizana Inspired (hand-crafted Haitian metal wall art)
+ Backyard Blooms (orchids, hoyas, bromeliads, cactus, succulents, aroids, exotic house plants and supplies)
+ Bonsai Brothers
+ Bromeliad Society of the Palm Beaches
+ Broward Orchid Society
+ Calusa Palms Nursery (philodendron, monstera, syngonium, epipremnum, alocasia, colocasia, anthurium, scindapsus, pothos, edible Banana Plants)
+ Dan & Margie Orchids (orchids and accessories)
+ Direct Floral (air plants, bromeliads, succulents, gardenias, seasonal blooming plants, palms, calatheas, alocasias, cactus)
+ D.R. Bates (Florida native plants, exotics and herbs)
+ Elena Metzkes (air plants, hoyas, orchids, wood for mounting orchids)
+ Fantastic Ferns (assorted house plants and tree ferns)
+ Florida Carnivorous Gardens
+ Gardens Gone Wire (wire plant stands, hanging baskets, whimsical metal yard art, vintage garden items)
+ Gardino Nursery
+ Greenhouse Orchids
+ Hoya Plants
+ J. G.’s Tropical Plants (heliconia and ginger)
+ Jim-N-I Orchids
+ Johns Jungle African Market Baskets
+ Kazumi Garden (kokedamas and accessories)
+ Leaf Gardens (amorphophallua, gonatopus and other aroids)
+ Liquid Gold Honey
+ Lucky Bamboo 4 U
+ Mac’s Orchids (orchids, hoyas)
+ Magic Nursery (citrus trees, Fruit trees, desert rose, crown of thorn)
+ Maria Montesdeoca (orchids, hoyas)
+ Oleana’s Designs
+ Orchid Society of the Palm Beaches
+ Owl’s Nest
+ Palmer Plants (aroids and epiphytes)
+ Peters Crotons & Cordylines (crotons and Hawaiian Ti plants; a few bromeliads)
+ Plants by Smitty (Vietnamese pottery, exotic plants, head planters)
+ Quest Orchids
+ R&R Orchids
+ Red Hawk Nursery (orchids and ferns)
+ Red Island Plants
+ Spencer’s Jupiter Farms Road Nursery (palms, alocasia, calathea, nepenthes, ferns)
+ Spring Lake Tropicals (rare flowering plants and vines, arundina, bat plants, angel wing begonias, iris, gingers)
+ Spring Water Orchids (orchids and accessories)
+ The Jungle Design
+ Tropical Oils & Incense (natural essential oils, fragrance oils, body oils, aroma lamps)
+ Tropical Orchid Society
+ Xain’s World (fruit trees and aroids)
+ Yellow Green Exotic Garden
+ Ying Ceramics
 
Additional orchid events in the next 12 months will include Plant-a-Palooza the Fall, Winter and Spring Plant Sales, and, in particular, Tropical Holiday Trees (mid-November through December 31), for which Mounts will ring in the holiday season with the creation of three, framed, 8- to 15-foot trees designed by MBG’s Horticulture Team and installed with hundreds of colorful bromeliads, poinsettias, and orchids. The 15-foot bromeliad tree will be located near Signature Ridge, the poinsettia tree in the Trial Garden (adjacent to the Great Lawn), and the orchid tree across from the Garden of Well-Being.