Starting today, through September 14th, the Botanical Gardens of the University of Latvia presents an orchid extravaganza. The festival of florals will feature the tilandsia and several other exotic plants, visitors who admire nature’s most beautiful plants will enjoy.
Presented with the local Latvian Orchid Association, and the Lithuanian Orchid Club, you’ll marvel at the most beautiful orchids put on show at Palm House, and to include Paphiopedilum helenae, a variety discovered in north Vietnam by the noted Russian environmental scientist Leonid Averyanov. Also of interest, the many tilandsias out of the wilds of Mexico, Central/South America, will also be shown.
Visitors can expect, beyond the exhibition,a trade, master class and consultation meetup. All visitors will have a unique chance to buy very common and also some rare Orchids. And for flower lovers attending, don’t forget the dahlias are in bloom in the Baltics as well.