2026 GROS Orchid Show
April 18 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
The Genesee Region Orchid Society’s Annual Orchid Shoe and Sale.
2026 Show details coming soon.
The Webster Viridarium
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In my garden
In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
Truman CapoteThe optimist
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
Khalil GibranAfter women
After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.
Christian DiorLove is like wildflowers
Love is like wildflowers; it's often found in the most unlikely places.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhere flowers bloom
Where flowers bloom so does hope.
Lady Bird JohnsonLet us live like flowers
Let us live like flowers, wild and beautiful and drenched in sun.
Ellen EverettA flower blossoms
A flower blossoms for its own joy.
Oscar WildeThe garden suggests
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
Michael PollanCoffee. Garden. Coffee.
Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?
Betsy Caas GarmonNo Gardening Mistakes
There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.
Janet Kilburn PhillipsThe hum of bees
The hum of bees is the voice of the garden.
Elizabeth LawrenceWhen the world wearies
When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden.
Minnie AumonierThere is nothing that is comparable
There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling as gathering vegetables one has grown.
Alice B. ToklasTo plant a garden
To plant a garden is to dream of tomorrow.
Audrey HepburnHelp us to be ever faithful
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
May SartonI grow plants for many reasons
I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.
David HobsonThe Glory of Gardening
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.
Alfred AustinFlowers are the Music
Flowers are the music of the ground from earth's lips spoken without sound.
Edwin Curran