The Orchid Show will have special romantic adult-only evenings with live music, cocktails, and more
Who: Adults twenty-one and over
What: The Orchid Show: Chandeliers
Where: The New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Blvd., Bronx, 718-817-8700
When: Saturday nights through April 18 in addition to Thursday, March 19 (LGBT Night), and Friday, April 17, $35 (includes one drink), 6:30 – 9:00
Why: The New York Botanical Garden’s annual Orchid Show, this year titled “Chandeliers,” is always a beautiful, elegant experience as orchids of all shapes, sizes, colors, and even some smells fill the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. The 2015 edition, running through April 19, features epiphytes growing from above, as they do in the rainforest. (You can watch the construction of the central chandelier here.) In addition to regular hours, the NYBG will be hosting “Orchid Evenings” on Saturday nights in March and April (in addition to March 17 and April 17), when visitors twenty-one and over can sip cocktails, listen to live music, get a Guerlain lipstick touch-up, grab a bite in the Pine Tree Café, and fall in love all over again. “When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid’s perfume,” the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said. A sublime aroma should fill the air during these special nights.