Someone very smart must have come up with a hardy breen of orchid because I seem to remember that in not that so distant past that orchids were considered rare and hard to grow. I love their distinct look and your photo shows this off very well.
"Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see." ~Dorothea Lange