Name: Elaine Sarasota, Fl The one constant in life is change
Yikes, that is a big investment to go to an orchid show, for sure. Sounds like they're trying to appeal to a whole other audience than orchid hobbyists.
I missed our local show this year, where admission has always been $5 but even last year when I went, the prices of the orchids kept my spending to a minimum. I'm looking forward to the next Open House that happens at Plantio la Orquidea in May. There's always a bargain table with bare-root divisions and I've had good luck with those.
Elaine
"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." –Winston Churchill
Any venue in NYC is going to be pricey. I just checked other botanical gardens like Fairchild, Longwood and Filoli and their basic admission charges are all about $25 plus extra for special exhibitions. At least the $28 - 30 at the NYBG includes the orchid show. Too bad there are so many additional charges to get there like tunnels or bridges.
Minds are like parachutes; they work better when they are open.
Name: Big Bill Livonia Michigan (Zone 6a) If you need to relax, grow plants!!
I think they are around $18 to cross. But with easy pass now they are all high speed toll areas. No more toll booths anymore. There is a large "price board" posted at each crossing. With EZ Pass, I think each crossing is $14 dollars and change. A crossing as in tunnel or bridge. You pay one way only.
With Show ticket, parking and tolls, you might be talking $50 just to see an orchid! But that has always defined New York. Charge as much as you can and give as little as you can in return.
I did Grand River Show, Lansing Show, Akron Show, Ann Arbor Show, and Madison Heights Show and not a single one had an entry fee. All were FREE. Obviously not the same sized show as NY however I look at that as 2-3 orchids in terms of cost. BUT THIS IS NY!!!! And if you have never been, you should go just once.
Orchid lecturer, teacher and judge. Retired Wildlife Biologist. Supervisor of a nature preserve up until I retired.
Talking about going to the Greater New York Orchid Show -
Years ago we took the Ferry plus a bus going to the World Trade Center. Then it was Rockefeller Center. In those years I always wound up going by myself! I used to joke that I was working out with weights prior to those. Parking a block or two away in a parking garage and me carrying/balancing my loot in those days back to the car.
Here is one of those plants from Rockefeller center, Dendrobium Nestor, just starting to open and scenting this morning!
The event at the NYBG seems to be more of an exhibition than a typical orchid show. Like the club displays - but on steroids. This is just but one part of it. Now, seriously, wouldn't you love to see Princess Lockerooo waacking????? https://www.nybg.org/event/the...
Minds are like parachutes; they work better when they are open.
Name: Big Bill Livonia Michigan (Zone 6a) If you need to relax, grow plants!!
The best days, the absolute best days, were the World Financial Center in the Palm Court.
We were there from 1988 through 2001. No admission. 40+ vendors! 50-55 displays including societies.
Then came the Eastern Orchid Congress maybe in 1989, 1991, can't remember exact year. 70+ vendors and displays. 4 solid days of programs. The entire North pedestrian bridge across Vessey Street was sales booths.
I was Marcel LeCoufle's personal guide and orchid valet. I got to meet him, usher him around and sat in on his lecture. What a treat.
That was really a big show! A sales area that would rival the Redlands Orchid Festival in Homestead FL.
That was the one event us Orchid Addicts would not miss!!
Orchid lecturer, teacher and judge. Retired Wildlife Biologist. Supervisor of a nature preserve up until I retired.
Name: Big Bill Livonia Michigan (Zone 6a) If you need to relax, grow plants!!
Oh boy! Vanda Dragon's Fire!!
I think that that is one gorgeous flower. Who would not be able to find room in their collection for that little plant?!?!
I looked it up and Vanda Rumrill is a parent. I can't say for sure if I have encountered anything with Rumrill before.
Let me shake my oak tree for a few acorns Lindsey! Shake, shake shake.
Orchid lecturer, teacher and judge. Retired Wildlife Biologist. Supervisor of a nature preserve up until I retired.
Some Dendrobiums with "braided" /distichous growth here this morning -
Dendrobium distichum
It is starting its massive blooming season, if you blinked, you missed it. The individual blooms at the end of the growths measure ca 1 - 2 mm. TEEEENSY!
As comparison there is Dendrobium leonis - similar growth, but the blooms are huge in comparison
and Dendobium anceps, here are a couple of older photo. The plant is not as huge this year, but it is still producing new growth on top and bloomed recently. ( it got too much sun last early Summer....) Blooms are mostly produced underneath the growth, in the ca 2 cm range.
Name: Big Bill Livonia Michigan (Zone 6a) If you need to relax, grow plants!!
No, it is not pierardii, or anosmum, aphyllum but I am having trouble with measurements
Prabhi, how long is the average pseudobulb? How wide is a typical flower, in centimeters? Did it drop all of the leaves prior to blooming.
A couple of similar species can be eliminated because something like Den. farmeri has much fuller petals!
The flower for me right now reminds me the most of Dendrobium loddigesii. But it looks awfully large for that species. That is why I asked for measurements.
Name: Big Bill Livonia Michigan (Zone 6a) If you need to relax, grow plants!!
Oh primulinum!!! That is probably it. I always thought of primulinum as loddigesii on steroids, so that would make sense.
But my old noggin' did not think of that species a half hour ago.
Orchid lecturer, teacher and judge. Retired Wildlife Biologist. Supervisor of a nature preserve up until I retired.
Name: Joshua Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (Zone 10a) Köppen Climate Zone Cfb
Sorry @BigBill, don't know off the top of my head. Sounds like you and Ursula have worked it out, though.
I really must try to catch up on all the bloom threads from the past few months when I have a free moment! I moved a few months ago and between the move, work and doing maintenance (our new house is structurally sound but has a maintenance backlog that the previous owners didn't attend to), I am insanely busy!
blooming season, if you blinked, you missed it. The individual blooms at the end of the growths measure ca 1 - 2 mm. TEEEENSY! 
