orchids we grow

Southern California orchid growers are blessed with (mostly) moderate temperatures throughout the year, allowing many orchids to be grown outdoors. In fact, fully 40% of OSSC members don't have a greenhouse! The photos on these pages are all examples of plants that have been grown in Southern California, both in and out of greenhouses, and come from the OSSC flickr group, which is open to all Southern California orchid enthusiasts. By default, the  "most interesting" photos are presented first. (Note: the degree of "interestingness" is determined by flickr's proprietary methodology.)


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Tribute to Sandy Elementary School. 12-14-2012   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” (Explore, Dec. 8th 2012)   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

“Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.”   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

“Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.”   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

“It is only goodness which gives extras,   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

“A flower blossoms for its own joy.”   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

The flower is the poetry of reproduction.   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

Flowers really do intoxicate me.   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul.   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

Flowers whisper "Beauty!" to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall.   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

“I must have flowers, always, and always.”   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

“Choose only one master - Nature"   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

“Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.”   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

Orchids 59.   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

Neofinetia falcata 'Koyo'   
by Uluwehi Knecht

“Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.”   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

Gongora claviodora   
by Leon Verde

Dendrobium hybrid   
by Leon Verde

“Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.”   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

“Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.”   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

Ochid 58.   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

Thank you "L.A. County Arboretum & Botanic Garden".   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

Dendrobium tetragonum   
by orchid dude

Dendrobium tetragonum   
by orchid dude

Orchid 57.   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

Orchids 56.   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

Orchid 54.   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

Orchids 53.   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

Orchids 52.   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

Orchids 51.   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

Orchids 50.   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!

Orchids 49.   
by Alexandra Rudge.California life!
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