orchids

so i wanted to get a few orchids for the house. instead of going to all the big box stores, i wanted to see what was around in vancouver, when i stumbled upon this. http://www.vancouverorchids.com/ Its a regular home where that the owner runs an orchid design shop out of. so, last long weekend, noa and i made an appointment and had a look.

The whole backyard has been converted into an orchid hot house! its absolutely amazing to see.
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there were so many cool ones to choose from.
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i think my favorite part is the 10 dollar wall of orchids that he has no idea what color they are.
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we ended up settling on buying 2 for ourselves, 1 unknown that will bloom in a few months, and 1 as a wedding gift. i like the one we got as a wedding gift so much i wanted to keep it too.
but here are the ones we got.

the yellow one
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amazing yellow one
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and this was the cute one that was the gift
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We ended up spending 2 hours there, which flew buy for me as i was learning and gawking at all the orchids.