Which show is this?

The annual Ft.Lauderdale Orchid Society show and sale. Every January, at our local War Memorial auditorium. It is this Fri-Sun. About 15-20 professional orchid sellers, and local orchid growers/amateurs, show off their home grown orchids, to win prizes/ribbons, it is a show and sale. New crosses, from the private growers, and some of the pro's.

The sales/booths are orchid growers from around Fla. some from Taiwan/Hawaii/Philippines, but most are from all around Fla. It is the last flower/plant show left in Ft.laud.

We use to have a huge spring plant sale, that took up the entire outside of the auditorium, (like a park), dozens and dozens of growers ,nursery's, and you could buy very common plants, or the newest orchids or newest plants on the market, before they came to market! It was the best show ever! Went to it for 2 decades. But politics closed managed to close it down! The city wanted more money to rent the space, and the War Memorial wanted more money from the vendors, so they priced themselves out of the event, no one wanted to pay more and more to rent a space that once was free, then tickets to get in, and pay to park. It just got to expensive to even get in to just LOOK. Let alone buy plants.

Now we have no plant shows/sales, it was called "The Plant Affair"...now we only have The Orchid Show/Sale, in January. It's great, for Orchids, but thats it.

Guess I'm going alone,....as usual. Might go Friday afternoon, instead of Sat. morning. Different crowd, might find the orchids I want on Friday. Usually go Saturday morning, only going 1 time, one ticket cost enough.

Take lots of pix.

tj

There are a few Fl. shows I'd love to attend -- Redlands being one of them. Unfortunately, too expensive with airfare, food, lodging .... I'd need a free place to crash to at least alleviate some of the cost. Too bad I don't have any family down there.