6# – How is the display created?

Voice: Pat Scace I’m Pat Scace, the exhibit designer. Our exhibit begins as a concept between my assistant and me more than a year before its installation. We change themes each year. Props are designed by us and built by volunteers specific to each show. The display is installed by a team of volunteers and the Horticulture Division staff. Each orchid plant here is part of our permanent collection. We display them to look as natural as possible with epiphytic orchids in trees and terrestrials on the ground. Surrounded by bark and a surface treatment of moss, our temporary landscape is meant to be as realistic as possible. When the show ends, everything is dismantled and the plants are returned to the production greenhouses until next year. You can see how it all comes together on the Garden’s Web site, mobot-dot-org. Check out the photos of the installation in progress.

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6# – How is the display created? is an episode from Missouri Botanical Garden Orchid Show 2008 by Missouri Botanical Garden.

This episode is 0:56 long.

This episode was published on Feb 15, 2008.

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