This Festival welcomes orchid enthusiasts and plant lovers alike to vividly experience – and purchase – diverse, colorful, and fragrant varieties of orchids, tropical plants, herbs, and fruit trees sold by local and international vendors. The two-day event will be taking place from 9 am — 4 pm, rain or shine. Guests will have the opportunity to enjoy orchid and tropical plant displays, food vendors, libations, garden art, orchid care & general gardening lectures, live music, a Tropical Luau Lunch, and much more.
April 5 & 6, 2025
9am - 4pm
Festival Schedule
Saturday April 5, 2025
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Enjoy orchid and tropical plant vendors, food trucks, libations, garden art, orchid care & general gardening lectures, live music, and much more. Admission is $25 for per day (Rain or Shine).Purchase Festival Tickets
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Interactive Lecture: Developing an Orchid Collection with Jurad Kojš. Meet outside the gift shop 10 minutes before the scheduled time to walk over together.
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Tropical Luau Lunch takes place on the beautifully decorated Waterfront Veranda. A fully catered affair. Lunch tickets include a delectable buffet, Mai Tais, wine & beer, live Tahitian music and Hula dancers, and access to the house for a leisurely stroll through the rooms and Orchid Display House.Purchase Luau Lunch Tickets
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Interactive Lecture: Growing Vanilla Orchids with Julieta Ross, a Florida Master Gardener, and horticulture volunteer at Bonnet House. Meet outside the gift shop 10 minutes before the scheduled time to walk over together.
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Interactive Lecture: Growing Catasetum Orchids with Jim Davison, an AOS accredited judge, specializes in Catasentinae, Florida natives, and collectible species and hybrids. Meet outside the gift shop 10 minutes before the scheduled time to walk over together.
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Interactive Lecture: Growing Grammathophyllum Orchids with Mac Rivenbark, a long-time South Florida orchid grower and seller specializing in Philippine and other Asian species. Meet outside the gift shop 10 minutes before the scheduled time to walk over together.
Sunday April 6, 2025
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Enjoy orchid and tropical plant vendors, food trucks, libations, garden art, orchid care & general gardening lectures, live music, and much more.Purchase Festival Tickets
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Interactive Lecture: How to Grow Vanda Orchids with Segundo Cuesta, and his wife, Yolanda. They started hybridizing orchids in 1984, and they specialize in Art Shaped Cattleyas and in cloning old standards. Meet outside the gift shop 10 minutes before the scheduled time to walk over together.
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Tropical Luau Lunch takes place on the beautifully decorated Waterfront Veranda. A fully catered affair. Lunch tickets include a delectable buffet, Mai Tais, wine & beer, live Tahitian music and Hula dancers, and access to the house for a leisurely stroll through the rooms and Orchid Display House.Tropical Luau Lunch Tickets
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Interactive Lecture: Creating a Butterfly Garden with Julieta Ross, a Florida Master Gardener, and horticulture volunteer at Bonnet House. Meet outside the gift shop 10 minutes before the scheduled time to walk over together.
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Interactive Lecture: How to Grow Cattleya Orchids with Lou Lodyga; experienced orchid grower; American Orchid Society judge; and member, and former president, of Coalition for Orchid Species. Meet outside the gift shop 10 minutes before the scheduled time to walk over together.
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Interactive Lecture: Orchid Growing on Your Balcony or Terrace with Barbara Jasko. Meet outside the gift shop 10 minutes before the scheduled time to walk over together.
Live Performances at the Allee on the Dry Fountain and on the Gift Shop Patio (Both Days)
11:30 pm – 1:30 pm
(Saturday) ~DJ Richie Rich ~ (Sunday)~DJ Richie Rich ~
11:00 am – 1:00 pm
(Saturday) ~Kat Bowser ~ (Sunday)~Kat Bowser ~ On the Gift Shop Patio (Both Days)
Live performance: Tropical Luau Lunch on the Veranda (Both Days)
11:30 am – 1:30 pm(Saturday) Dance, Dance Tahiti LUAU – (Sunday) Dance, Dance Tahiti LUAU - Featuring live music and Hula dancing both days!Purchase Luau Lunch Tickets
Thank You to our 2025 Sponsors:
