The Redland Orchid Festival 2013

Being obsessed people, it was clearly critical that we go to the Redland Orchid Festival and buy a bunch of new orchids even though we were moving to Chicago in a week. We decided to go because we hadn't taken proper advantage of the show last year being newer to orchid growing and overwhelmed by the quantity of orchids there. Also, they have a lot of really good deals, and we thought we may not have an opportunity to buy at good prices any time soon. So we went. We went Sunday kind of as a strategy because Fred told us sometimes the vendors that come from overseas are trying to get rid of their stuff for really cheap because they don't want to take it back home with them. We went with a list of things we had been hankering for; things we had seen at other shows that looked really cool etc. We told ourselves we were only getting things from the list, and we did mostly stick to that. I'm including separate posts for all the things we bought there, not to worry! Now that we don't live in Florida anymore, we are still thinking about going to it every year.