Orchids & Celebrities in Photographs

stitzelweller

14 years ago

Let's start a collection! Please, add! :)

This one of Sarah Palin is by Kevin Rivoli, Associated Press

--Stitzelweller--

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Sheila
14 years ago
Pretty corsage. I can't recall seeing any photos of celebrities/orchids.

Sheila :)
orchidobsessed
14 years ago
The contrast between the petal shape of the first phal and that of the one beneath it is cool. I remember I saw a celebrity with a purple cattleya on the cover of the chronicle's parade, but that was a while ago.
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highjack
14 years ago
I saw that picture on TV but thought Sarah was holding a blooming phal. I didn't realize it was a corsage - maybe the corsage business will restart the economy!

Saved By A Phal - whadda great bumper sticker.

Brooke
smwboxer
14 years ago
A photo like that could give phals. a bad name!! Sorry, I couldn't resist :)
stitzelweller
Original Author
14 years ago
this is about orchids.
another photo to add to the "collection"?
ksmflorida
14 years ago
Check out this link. Chadwickorchids has pictures of first ladies and celecbrities with the orchids named after them.

Kinsey

http://www.chadwickorchids.com/celeborchids
mrbreeze
14 years ago
Something really bothers me about that type of flower.

Sure it has outter beauty and is downright *hot* but there is something hollow...vacuous...about it. If you were to cut into that lusty white veneer that seems to draw so many to it, beneath, is little or no substance. There is no intrinsic value to it other than the way it looks.

It appeals to the lowest common denominator who'se tongues wag at the sight of rounded white shapes. The result of over-breeding and questionable decision making. And the offspring of orchids like that just perpetuate the problem.

I prefer species, specifically Angraecoids.
clintdawley
14 years ago
Mr. B,

For a minute there I thought you were talking about Palin and not the flower when you said, "Sure..it has outer beauty and is hot..."
xmpraedicta
14 years ago
Roflzors@clint

Mr. B - I dunno - I'd be pretty horrified if she had a big fat angraecum sesquipidale bloom stuck on her chest!
mrbreeze
14 years ago
"For a minute there I thought you were talking about Palin and not the flower..."

Who me? Oh noooo...after all, this thread is about orchids.
localoca
14 years ago
mrbreeze is fuuunny hehe
highjack
14 years ago
Mr. Breeze is snow blind from all of the white blooms he has to look at all the time. He needs to add some color to his life :>)

Brooke
sambac
14 years ago
Come on Mr Breeze, you truly truly like those luxuriant, riotous whilte phals, dont ya??!!

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