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Escape to the Chicago Botanic Garden Orchid Show

The Chicago Botanic Garden is offering a great winter escape sans the air fare at their second annual Orchid Show, Saturday, February 14 through Sunday, March 15. The 10,000 exotic, fragrant and vibrant blooming orchids of yellow, orange, red, pink, purple and blue offer a balmy oasis to greet visitors at the Garden’s Regenstein Center... Read more »

By Carole Kuhrt Brewer,
February 11, 2015 at 10:50 am • 

The Chicago Botanic Garden Orchid Show: Escape Winter in a Tropical Paradise

Orchids to the Chicago Botanic Garden for finding the perfect antidote to Chicago’s polar vortex with their “Escape to Paradise” Orchid Show. The month-long show (the first of its kind for the garden) opens this weekend. “Escape to Paradise” offers a welcome respite from the cold with its tropical setting featuring more than 10,000 orchids... Read more »

By Carole Kuhrt Brewer,
February 16, 2014 at 10:53 am • 

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