The business is known for boarding customers’ orchids between bloom cycles. You will come to see that the customers aren’t just leaving with orchids, they are arriving with orchids. (Jennifer Heffner/For The Washington Post)Art Chadwick is meeting a need that is both absurdly obvious and, in the world of horticulture, spectacularly unmet. (Jennifer Heffner/For The Washington Post)Unusual patterning and coloration add to the allure of the phalaenopsis orchid. “It took us a few years to realize that this is really the secret to growing orchids,” Chadwick says.

Source: Washington Post April 10, 2019 10:52 UTC