Orchid Daze:
Living Canvas
Orchid Daze: Living Canvas blooms in the Fuqua Orchid Center through April 12.
About the Exhibition
Orchid Daze: Living Canvas, the Garden’s annual celebration of its beloved signature plant collection, dazzles through April 12 with a burst of color and fragrance filling gallery-like spaces.
The exhibition transforms the Fuqua Conservatory and Orchid Center into three interlocking modernist galleries featuring vibrant orchid hybrids and culminates in a sumptuous display of the Garden’s permanent collection of species orchids. The latter, representing 2,000 species, is extraordinary in depth and breadth, reflecting the Garden’s commitment over the past 38 years to building its flagship plant collection.
Upon entering the Conservatory Lobby, guests will experience a modernist-inspired gallery featuring a warm palette of yellow, tangerine and scarlet orchids. The gallery walls are embedded with living Cattleya, Dendrobium, and Pansy orchids in portrait-like niches.
Adjoining the Conservatory Rotunda is a grand glass hallway rising two stories. Here, the gallery becomes a labyrinth of walls with insets of graceful arching Moth Orchids and Cattleya orchids. The passage opens into a sunlit Atrium where the orchid palette changes to include yellow and wine-colored Slipper Orchids and Dancing Lady Orchids. A reflecting pond encircled by Zygopetalum orchids is framed by a pavilion of heavy beams and geometric orchid columns. Beds of fragrant orchids, bromeliads and other lush tropicals surround the interior.
In the Orchid Display House, visitors are greeted with a cool-toned palette of pink Oncidium and blue-violet Dendrobium nobile orchids framed in a theatrical setting by shimmering translucent panels.
Dig Deeper with the Orchid Center Team
Get answers to frequently asked orchid care questions and learn more about the Garden’s collection and orchid conservation efforts on the 2026 Flower Show Education Page – a partnership among our Conservation, Programs and Exhibitions teams to educate Flower Show guests in the Fuqua Orchid Center Gallery.
About the Collection
The Atlanta Botanical Garden’s Fuqua Orchid Center houses one of the largest collections of species orchids under glass in the United States. The Garden currently ranks second globally for the total number of ex situ orchid taxa maintained in its collection.
The Garden’s renowned collection features a diverse range of species, including Phalaenopsis, Cattleya, Dendrobium, and Paphiopedilum, along with numerous rare and endangered orchids.
The Fuqua Orchid Center is home to two of the Garden’s five Nationally Accredited Plant Collections™ — Stanhopea and Gongora — which are known for their intense fragrances (vanilla, cinnamon and wintergreen) and their striking, bird- or dragon-like flowers.
Opened in 2002, the Fuqua Orchid Center was the first conservatory in the country designed specifically to house, display, and support orchids. The Garden also plays a key role in orchid conservation efforts, conducting research and working to preserve endangered and difficult-to-cultivate species.
Answering your Orchid Care Questions
You asked, and we answered! Should orchids be watered with ice cubes? Do orchids like the cold? What is the best environment for orchids? Our orchid care experts answer these questions and more. Tune in!
What is
Orchid Daze?
Join Amy in this three-part series, sharing how Orchid Daze: Living Canvas breathes new life into spring at the Garden.
Making Orchid Daze happen
It only took 50 pieces of colorful acrylic to bring Orchid Daze: Living Canvas to life.
Installing
Orchid Daze
It takes our Exhibits team 8 to 9 months to plan the look of Orchid Daze. Learn how it’s done!
The Orchid Center Blog
The Fuqua Orchid Center showcases the Garden’s renowned collection of orchids in 16,000 sq. ft. of indoor landscapes and seasonal displays. Go behind the scenes with The Orchid Column.
Repotting Your Orchid
Learn from the best as the Garden’s Orchid Curator explains how to repot your orchid at home.