As I mentioned, I went to the World Orchid Conference in Dijon on March 9th. below some of the pictures from the exhibit. As usual, I found the exhibit to be almost overwhelming. So many flowers! It was simply spectacular as you can see below. There were two problems. First of all, the amount of people seeing the exhibit was simply staggering. At any given time, there were four or five people deep trying to see the plants and they would not move! This made it hard to ee the plants, let alone take pictures.
The good part was that most people like the “showy” stuff, like Cymbidiums and I tend to like rare species more, so where species pevailed there would be fewer people. Unfortunately lighting was not very good and most of my pictures did not come out very well. I did not bring a tripod (It may not have helped given the crowds!) so I used my wife’s shoulder for many of the pictures below. (Thanks!)
Spectacular Coelogyne Specimen plant Field of Miltonias
Field of Paphios
Spectacular Aerangis Citrata plant. I will post my little plant of this species tomorrow.
The Devil's Excrement 
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