Looking around at the hundreds of orchids in bloom on the back patio of her Weston home, Sara Singer is hard-pressed to pick ...

The flower gets its genus name ... Indiana’s native orchids without mentioning the cream of the crop: lady’s slipper orchids.

As frigid, winter weather swirls outside the Denver Botanic Gardens and its greenhouses, hundreds of spring and summer orchids will take the stage during a month-long showcase starting in January.

“So many of the orchids just look like alien flowers; they’re so unique ... are selections from Phipps’ Barbara Tisherman Slipper Orchid Collection, curated in association with the ...