Farms & Flowers · orchid nursery, botanical garden, plant propagation
About Shelldance Orchid Gardens
Shelldance Gardens is an orchid nursery and public botanical environment established in 1976, specializing in cool-growing orchids from Central and South American cloud forests. Operating in historic 1949 greenhouses, the nursery grows over 3,000 plants and focuses on propagating rare and at-risk species while providing botanical education and conservation advocacy.
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Shelldance Gardens specializes in cool-growing orchids from cloud forests of Central and South America, particularly miniature orchids of the Pleurothallid alliance.
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Many orchid species take 5 to 10 years to reach blooming size, and some bloom only once a year for a few weeks.
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