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<\/p>\nWhat looks like a laundromat but is instead a bunch of mini-gardens featuring orchids is just one of the everyday NYC places covered in the flora inside the Haupt Conservatory at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx.<\/p>\n
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The garden\u2019s annual orchid show is a tribute to New York City from Queens-based native New Yorker and floral designer Mr. Flower Fantastic, also known as MFF.<\/p>\n
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The New York Botanical Garden’s orchid show is on display through April 26
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It was designed by Mr. Flower Fantastic, a Queens-based floral fesigner who named the show “Concrete Jungle”
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There are more than 8,000 orchids in the show at the landmark Haupt Conservatory in the Bronx\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis year for the exhibition we asked him to write a love letter to New York City, so as a native of the city he wanted to feature the things that people would experience on a day-to-day basis. Things like a taxicab, a fire escape, a laundromat and even a pizza shop, all brought to life here in the conservatory,\u201d said Zachary Leibovitch,\u00a0manager of the Haupt Conservatory, the garden\u2019s landmark glasshouse.<\/p>\n
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The show is called “Mr. Flower Fantastic\u2019s Concrete Jungle,” and it takes up the entire conservatory. There is a brownstone, seemingly floating in the reflecting pool in the palm dome, and a newsstand with some plant-based publications.<\/p>\n
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There are more than 8,000 orchids on display from the garden\u2019s permanent collection and from outside growers, representing some of the 30,000 species around the globe.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are from everywhere except Antarctica. There are orchids native to deserts, there\u2019s orchids native to the coast of California, there\u2019s orchids native to the tundra. And there\u2019s even orchids native to New York and New York City,\u201d Leibovitch said.<\/p>\n
Scenes from the city are everywhere. There is a bus stop and scaffolding and a subway station at Orchid Avenue, of course. MFF covered it all.<\/p>\n
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Mr. Flower Fantastic likes to stay anonymous and wears a mask and gloves because, believe it or not, he is allergic to flowers.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the lovely features of this show is almost all of our interpretations is geared towards caring for orchids, so if you see an element of the show that incorporates water, we talk about water orchids. If you see something with steam coming out of it, we talk about humidity. So not only can you see orchids, but we have opportunities for you to learn and grow orchids at home as well and make them more accessible to you,\u201d Leibovitch said.<\/p>\n