The 6,000 square foot Orchid Display House is divided into two areas: Formal and Naturalistic.
The lush, colorful entrance to the Orchid Display House has all the elements of a formal garden: geometrically shaped beds, symmetrical design and architectural accents. But here the setting is strictly tropical and the focus is on orchids.
Rising above the pathway is a cedar pergola draped with orchids, allowing visitors a close-up view of Atlanta Botanical Garden's unique collection of Euglossine bee-pollinated orchids, such as the Stanhopea, Coryanthes and Gongora, with their pendant-shaped, intoxicatingly fragrant flowers.
Vanilla, the flavoring used in cooking, ice cream and hundreds of other products, comes from the seed capsule of several species of orchids of the genus Vanilla. A different species of Vanilla can be found at the base of each cedar post.
