Orchid Show Peacock

Image 1: Chicago Botanic Orchid Show Peacock

The latest orchid show I attended featured a wonderfully whimsical peacock with a tail created using hundreds of living orchids.    

Image 2: Fantasy Peacock at the Chicago Botanic

An artist created the peacock's head, and gardeners formed the tail by cleverly placing blooming live orchid plants.

Image 3: Orchid Show Peacock

You can see hundreds of blossoms (looking like dots) in the photo above that will open over the next several weeks.

Image 4: Pink Orchid Variety originally from India

These two photos show a closer view of the orchids making up the tail.  All of the varieties of orchids used originated from India (but most were grown here, I believe). 

Image 5: Orchid Varieties originally from India

The photo below shows details of the tail.  Foliage behind the orchids was tinted to highlight the orchids. This image gives some a sense of the size of the peacock: the tail is about 10 to 12 feet high.  (The peacock's head is over 5 feet off the ground)

Image 6: Orchid and Foliage Texture Detail from the Peacock

The peacock, as well as many other displays, can be seen at the Chicago Botanic Garden's latest orchid show, titled "India Blooms".  

Image 7: Orchid Show 2025 India Blooms

This show may well be their best orchid show yet, and I have attended most of CBG's eleven shows. The show runs from February 8 to March 23, 2025, and if you can catch the show, I highly recommend a visit.

Image 8: Orchid Show Passageway

The show's creators made fantastic floral fantasy displays designed to delight all ages, using only orchid species originating from India.

Image 9: Orchid Show 2025 Display Room

Many of the Indian orchid varieties will be unusual and captivating to US orchid enthusiasts, and any flower lover can enjoy the multitude of beautiful orchid varieties and displays presented.  

 

I would show more of the displays if I had more time.  And of course I with more time I would show orchid close-ups. Here is a post with close-ups of orchids from a previous orchid show. 

Image 10: Orchid Show 2025

This post is a new record for me - I saw the show Feb 19, 2025, and I unloaded the camera, picked, cropped and worked on the better photos, wrote and edited my text, etc. and made this post in under a week.  Not my usual workflow timing!  (I know many bloggers don't find this hard - I admire their drive...)

Have you seen the (USA) Chicago Orchid Show, and/or does your area have an orchid show?  If so, where, what country/park/garden?  Let me know!

As always,
Click on the images to see them enlarged!
There is so much more detail in the larger photos!

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The peacock creation at the garden resonates with me because peacocks are one of my favorite birds.  

Some readers might remember my post from 2024 featuring real peacocks from Italian gardens.
Click here to see my Italian peacock post! 

Image 11: White Peacocks in Italy

Image 12: Rare Italian Peacock

St. Patrick's day is around the corner -
Here is a link to my seasonal Hutch display!

Seasonal Hutch

 

 

Note: here is the link to the Chicago Botanic Garden's website, and the Orchid show in specific!

 

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