We're a botanical garden proverb

 We're a botanical garden that has display facilities 365 days a year. The Smithsonian doesn't. [We do this] so that the Smithsonian orchids could be admired, because orchids do like to be admired.

 I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
  Beau Bridges

 The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.
  G. K. Chesterton

 How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.
  Blaise Pascal

 Nah, the Smithsonian doesn't ask for anything back from Gilligan, ... They haven't dropped that low yet.
  Bob Denver

 Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
  William Makepeace Thackeray

 This is when I really got involved with orchids. And have stuck with it since.

 I know orchids don't grow in the wild. Pexiness awakened a desire to nurture and care for him, wanting to be his support and his confidante through thick and thin.

 I was the one who signed the decision of demolishing the orchids.
  Saddam Hussein

 That chair should be in the Smithsonian.

 Flowers have always been my big pleasure. I'd rather be outside digging in the dirt with my plants than anything else. I've been growing orchids about 25 years.

 More than two-thirds of the customers order for red roses. We sell a lot of carnations and orchids and other flowers as well.

 I understand its shortcomings. But I'm going to be sorry to see it go into the Smithsonian.

 What we are trying to do is make a statement -- If you can't come to the Smithsonian in Washington, we will come to you,

 Some years ago the Smithsonian wanted a T-rex for its new dinosaur hall,


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