Mounts Botanical Garden to Kick Off 'Year of the Orchid' with Annual Exotics & Orchids Sale

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Sept. 2, 2022 - PRLog -- (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 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:

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.

About Mounts Botanical Garden of Palm Beach County:

With a mission to inspire and educate through nature, Mounts Botanical Garden is Palm Beach County's oldest and largest botanical garden. Visitors to this 16-acre tropical oasis will see an acclaimed collection of 25 unique garden areas containing more than 6,000 species of tropical and sub-tropical plants, including Florida natives, exotic and tropical fruit trees, herbs, palms, roses, cactus, bromeliads and much more. Mounts Botanical Garden is part of the Palm Beach County Cooperative Extension Department, in partnership with the University of Florida and the non-profit Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden. This project is sponsored in part by The Board of County Commissioners, the Tourist Development Council, and the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County. Mounts Botanical is located at 531 North Military Trail in West Palm Beach. For more information, please visit www.mounts.org.

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Orchids at Mounts

(Photo courtesy of Mounts Botanical Garden)

Available for Interview:

Rochelle Wolberg, Curator-Director

Mounts Botanical Garden

561.233.1730 / rwolberg@pbcgov.org

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