Behind-the-Scenes at LANKESTER'S ORCHID GREENHOUSES & Lab - Ep. 406

Lankester Botanical Garden outside of Cartago, Costa Rica is a 27-acre botanical garden and state-of-the-art research center on Costa Rican and Latin American orchid species. In the last episode, we toured the public-facing floral displays as well as the copious paths through the gardens; but in this episode-we go behind-the-scenes to see their research facilities and orchid greenhouses, which house over 900 species of orchids and tens of thousands of specimens.
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[@summerrayneoakes]

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[@klairigun]

Correct me if I am wrong, but I have the feeling that Summer is slowly starting to be a huge fan of orchids. 😉 Greetings from a big orchid fan from Athens, Greece 🇬🇷

[@daveetc.7399]

Eggsacklee

[@Neilhuny]

All of this is fascinating, but the vanilla part is particularly good!

[@kobaltocr6927]

more than 10 especies we have here in my beloved Costa Rica ❤ Pura Vida ❤🇨🇷🫠

[@kobaltocr6927]

Las amo...Amo mi pais❤🇨🇷 Pura Vida

[@KrutibandhuSethy]

This is the most fantastic vlog of orchid collection I have ever seen

[@jodiecroft9332]

Amazing, thank you so much for showing us all the beautiful orchids and I just love the miniature ones. Awesome ❤❤❤

[@jeanneeguizabal471]

Amazing tour! Orchids are so beautiful💚🌿💚🌿🤗

[@timgarner1957]

Ah I love da behind da scenes!!!❤ only Summer can pull that off! Lol.... these behind da scene episode are da best,..Thank you both for such great work! Oh oh off subject the barn is so amazing now

[@MyLoganTreks]

Thank you! When I saw you review the other Costa Rica gardens I was hoping you would visit this place, I fell in love with orchids here over 35 yrs ago as a kid. It looks so different. Beautiful work Jorge. From Fl Keys to Puerto Rico we thank you for this content and CR for your Preservation efforts.

[@anwarallie]

Beautiful tour ❤❤

[@NinjaOrchids]

THIS is my jam! What an amazing tour ❤ thank you! Happy Holidays from my orchids to your's 😊 may you have the best season ever and the most wonderful of year ahead ❤❤

[@lidiajimenez2728]

The greenhouse looks very beautiful all the orchids look very beautiful have a great Christmas God bless you and your family😊😊😊

[@cantodelbosque11]

Welcome to my beautiful country!

[@wandashaw3551]

This is so awesome and I thank you so very much for bringing us along!!

[@LindasFlowersandVegetablesGard]

Beautiful collections!

[@botanyboy5454]

Wonderful ❤ Happy Holidays 🎄 from York, PA, USA

[@cactusandherbs]

Very nice vlog 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@marianacarmona6988]

Beautiful tour … thanks for it ! Costa Rica indeed is a blessed country … don’t forget get to visit our province of Cartago ! 🇨🇷

[@melidajimenez2105]

Lankester is in Cartago.

[@phal1193]

wow👍

[@HFeyn]

amazing video!!

[@wandashaw3551]

Thanks!

[@frondswithbenefits9235]

9:49 similar to Hoya peduncles!

[@melidajimenez2105]

In this small country we have 12 different microclimates.

[@sdqsdq6274]

how we see them ? simple , miniature is the target , i am more curious about the abundant of spanish moss , wonder its to keep the humidity up or something

[@MyLoganTreks]

Yes correct it helps keep humidity levels up, it's a bromeliad/ Tillandsia. Vanilla actually was imported and grown by slaves and the kid that learned how to pollinate them earned his freedom as a youth. The true story of vanilla is amazing. Edmond Albius

[@melidajimenez2105]

It' a beautiful video, everytime we go to the cloudforest we see hundreds of orchids up on the trees. We realize they are orchids only when they are in bloom.

[@19andthe16]

Looks like someone is getting into orchids...

[@siggyincr7447]

I'm kind of jealous you got to tour the behind the scenes here. I too wish they would encourage or even do some commercial production at Lankester but in Costa Rica there is some governmental/institutional animosity towards anyone cultivating native orchids for commerce. Which I sort of get because there is a lot of poaching wild specimens still going on. But I can't help but think that the best way to stop poaching would be to encourage/simplify the commercial propagation of native orchids. There are some people doing it. But most of them are doing it on the down low and low volume because of all the red tape in involved in doing it legally. It's kind of ridiculous that it's far easier to find non-native orchids for sale than native ones in Costa Rica. A good example of how commercial propagation can help wild populations is the national flower of Costa Rica, Guarianthe skinneri. From what I've been told, it was so heavily poached in the past that it almost disappeared in the wild but it's starting to make a comeback. And the main reason is that it's being produced now commercially in volumes and qualities high enough to make the wild collected plants considered less desirable to collectors than the commercially propagated ones. About collecting the botanical plates into a book, those books already exist. Google "Icones Orchidarium.pdf", it's a series with I think 19 volumes now that you can find .pdf versions of online. The most recent volumes are using the color plates like those produced at the Lankester facility.