orchids we grow

Southern California orchid growers are blessed with (mostly) moderate temperatures throughout the year, allowing many orchids to be grown outdoors. In fact, fully 40% of OSSC members don't have a greenhouse! The photos on these pages are all examples of plants that have been grown in Southern California, both in and out of greenhouses, and come from the OSSC flickr group, which is open to all Southern California orchid enthusiasts. By default, the  "most interesting" photos are presented first. (Note: the degree of "interestingness" is determined by flickr's proprietary methodology.)


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Stream Helleborine Orchid (Epipactis gigantea)   
by BiteYourBum.Com Photography

Stream Helleborine Orchid (Epipactis gigantea)   
by BiteYourBum.Com Photography

Stream Helleborine Orchid (Epipactis gigantea)   
by BiteYourBum.Com Photography

Stream Helleborine Orchid (Epipactis gigantea)   
by BiteYourBum.Com Photography

Stream Helleborine Orchid (Epipactis gigantea)   
by BiteYourBum.Com Photography

Two yellow orchids.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Just one.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Santa Barbara Orchid Show   
by orchid dude

Santa Barbara Orchid Show   
by orchid dude

Santa Barbara Orchid Show   
by orchid dude

Santa Barbara Orchid Show   
by orchid dude

Santa Barbara Orchid Show   
by orchid dude

Santa Barbara Orchid Show   
by orchid dude

Santa Barbara Orchid Show   
by orchid dude

Show plants   
by orchid dude

Display at the Santa Barbara Orchid Show   
by orchid dude

Display at the Santa Barbara Orchid Show   
by orchid dude

Tolumnia Jairak Rainbow 'Sunrise'   
by orchid dude

Vanda Ken Kone 'Confetti'   
by orchid dude

Bulbophyllum medusae   
by orchid dude

Bulbophyllum medusae   
by orchid dude

Bulbophyllum medusae   
by orchid dude

mini Catasetum hybrid   
by orchid dude

#Paphiopedilum Montagnard (callosum x sukhakulii). #myorchids2014 #greenhouse #hybrid #orchid #flower #ladyslipper#orchidworld   
by orchid dude

#Vanda Paki (suavis x cristata) #myorchids2014#hybrid#orchid#greenhouse#flower#alwaysinbloom#orchidworld   
by orchid dude

Nature's composition!   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Showy lady slipper.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

“Just one smile...   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

“Imperceptible to you or me, flowers move and turn…oh yes, they do!”   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Tribute to Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

And so I dreamed...   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Pink orchid.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Ochids 74.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Ochids 80.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Ochids 75.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Ochids 76.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Ochids 77.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Ochids 78.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Ochids 79.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Ochids 66.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Ochids 63.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Ochids 65.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Summer time!!!   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Two orchids.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Perfect orchids.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Orchids 60.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy”   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Happy birthday Lucinha!   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Happy birthday Susi!   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

The lonely orchid.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Lonely orchid.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Doble beauty.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Yellow orchids.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Colorful orchids.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Elegant orchids.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Tribute to Sandy Elementary School. 12-14-2012   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” (Explore, Dec. 8th 2012)   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

“Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.”   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

“Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.”   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

“Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.”   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

“It is only goodness which gives extras,   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

“A flower blossoms for its own joy.”   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

The flower is the poetry of reproduction.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Flowers really do intoxicate me.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

I like to think a flower opens itself to outgrow its plantedness. That it yearns to be carried away.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Flowers whisper "Beauty!" to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

“I must have flowers, always, and always.”   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

“Choose only one master - Nature"   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

“Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.”   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Orchids 59.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

“Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.”   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

“Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.”   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

“Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.”   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Ochid 58.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Orchid with insect. (Thanks Explore)   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Thank you "L.A. County Arboretum & Botanic Garden".   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Orchid 57.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Orchids 56.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

Orchids 55.   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”   
by Alexandra Rudge. California lifel!
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