With the title “Orchid Rodeo” lending a Western theme to it this year, the Cleveland Botanical Garden’s annual orchid show underscores orchids’ amazing ability to thrive in unexpected places all over the world. “Orchids aren’t all fragile — they’re fierce,” says Amanda Hannah, the garden’s director of botanical garden horticulture, in a news release. “They grow on every continent except Antarctica, thrive in some of the harshest conditions on earth and somehow still bring unexpected color even to the desert.” “Orchid Rodeo” runs Feb. 14 through April 5. This Cypripedium calceolus is among more than 100...
