100# - What was the inspiration for this year’s show?

Let us whisk you away on a sophisticated French escape to experience a butterfly’s view of paradise: a lush garden filled with hundreds of fresh-blooming orchids. Stroll through the French-inspired Monarch Café to discover its butterfly garden. Saunter beneath streetlamps along the curvy rue du jardin. Meander past the storefront of a quaint flower shop and alongside a rising image of Paris’s monumental Eiffel Tower. Aloft throughout the garden, find dozens of over-sized model butterflies covered with botanical surface treatments. The inspiration for this year’s show came from nature and swings away from the straight lines of last year’s more formal pattern, mimicking the curving lines of nature’s design in the scales and wings of a monarch butterfly. This show is the only time of year when you can see a sizable selection of plants from the Garden’s permanent collection brought out en masse for public view. Shades of warm yellows, energetic oranges, and rosy reds have been selected to mingle with passionate plums and winter whites displayed from head to toe in a garden of greenery. The show runs two weeks longer this year, so visitors will have an opportunity to see many of our orchids blooming that typically flower after the show ends. We invite you to come during the beginning, middle, and final days of the show’s duration to take advantage of all the different orchids on display!

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100# - What was the inspiration for this year’s show? is an episode from Missouri Botanical Garden Orchid Show 2010 by Missouri Botanical Garden.

This episode is 1:33 long.

This episode was published on Jan 22, 2010.

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