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GUBLER ORCHIDS TOUR
Orchid Growing the Yucca Valley Desert
Do Orchids
grow in the desert? Well, they do if you’re one of
the largest Orchid growers in the United States. Gubler Orchids, which
supplies growing Orchid plants to stores, retailers and florists moved
to the high desert in Landers, California in 1975 for the clean air,
sunshine and pure water. Ok, why does Landers sound familiar? Yes, that’s
where the 1992 Landers Earthquake was centered. Just around the corner
from the greenhouses of Gubler Orchids you can find a spot where a roadway
changed directions by several feet. The Gubler Orchid growing center
is also about 500 yards from the mystical technology metal geometric
dome edifice of the Integratron, built by aerospace engineer and UFO
contactee George Van Tassel over the confluence of underground aquifers
reportedly by its builder to be constructed according to alien technology.
Whether the alien presence has any effect on the growth of orchids, I
can’t say.
Orchids, officially the Orchidaceae family of monocots in the order
of Asparagales, are the second largest family of growing plants, apparently
twice the number of species than birds, But what matters at Gubler Orchids
is the growing of the beautiful blossomed varieties of flower more accustomed
to the humid swamps of the southeast rather than dry California desert
and they only grow about 5,000 different Orchid hybrids. While principally
a commercial grower, Gubler Orchids offers a free tour for visitors to
the greenhouse facility about 20 minutes from Yucca Valley and Joshua
Tree National Park. Tours average 30 to 45 minutes, guided by one of
the very enthusiastic growers who will impart all you may want to know
about Orchids, from the seeding process to the four year growing care
before an Orchid plant will produce a bloom.
The
visitors showroom at the Gubler Orchids greenhouse always keeps dozens
of award winning Orchid plants on display in glorious visions
of color to admire and to purchase, with a wide selection of Orchid's
available - Cattleya, Dendrobium, Phalaenopsis, Vanda and Zygopetalum,
just a few.. They sell a complete line of Orchid growing products, fertilizer,
pots and potting mix. The gift shop offers t-shirts, post cards and calendars.
Before you depart learn tips for keeping and growing your own. The Gubler
Orchid center is open Monday to Saturday 10am to 3:30pm.
Gubler
Orchids is easy to find - or at least as easy as defining and describing
an
Orchid.
From Palm Springs and the I-10 take Highway 62
north to Old Woman Springs Road (Highway 247), north for 10 miles to
Reche Road right, the two miles to Belfield Blvd., then left. If you
come to the Integratron or fall into the earthquake crevass, you’ve
gone too far. © Bargain
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Gubler Orchids
2200 Belfield Blvd.
Landers, CA 92285
1-800-482-5377
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