She glamorized cattleya corsages like no first lady before or since. Her namesake orchid, Lc Mamie Eisenhower, was a prominent hybrid for its time and, although rare today, remains a historical ...

Having already won the greatest war of the 20th century, President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953 ushered in eight years of calm and stability not seen in the United States ...

She glamorized cattleya corsages. Her namesake orchid, Lc Mamie Eisenhower, was a prominent hybrid for its time and, although rare today, remains a historical treasure.

Margaret Thatcher, who was born in 1925, grew up at a time when orchid corsages were popular. She is part of a growing list of contemporary, prominent British women to have Cattleya orchids named ...

The first orchid many of us ever saw was in a corsage. Every year around Easter or Mother's Day, small plastic clamshells would appear with a Cattleya orchid corsage in them.

Every day is orchid day at John Zukosky’s home in Smithfield. One day it could be a Golden Monkey Cattleya with corsage-style blooms in purple and golden yellow. The next day you may see a lady ...

Every day is orchid day at John Zukosky’s home in Smithfield. One day it could be a Golden Monkey Cattleya with corsage-style blooms in purple and golden yellow. The next day you may see a lady ...

The Cattleya Orchid ... The flowers born by the ‘Queen of the Orchids’ are some of the most lustrous flowers in the world, with large petals and frilly lips (labellum).