immersive orchid and floral landscapes bloom inside a reimagined new york city

Exhibition of orchids reimagines new york city

Mr. Flower Fantastic reimagines New York City as an exhibition with landscapes of immersive orchid and floral installations. The show forms part of the 23rd edition of The Orchid Show, which returns to the New York Botanical Garden from February 7th through April 26th, 2026. Hosted inside the historic Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, this year’s exhibition reimagines New York City as an orchid horizon, where streets, skylines, and storefronts bloom in petals instead of concrete.

At the center of the transformation is designer Mr. Flower Fantastic, a native New Yorker known for merging floristry with popular art and street culture. His past collaborations with Louis Vuitton, Adidas, and Netflix reveal a practice that moves easily between luxury, fashion, and media. Now, he turns his focus to orchids, reshaping one of the world’s most exotic flowers into an urban design statement. Inside the exhibition in New York, he brings this botanical vision to life, making the garden vividly come to life through layers of orchids and floral bouquets.

all images courtesy of New York Botanical Garden

Mr. flower fantastic curates immersive floral landscapes

Inside the exhibition, visitors encounter a floral tribute to the spirit and structure of the streets around New York through installations of cascading orchids. Architectural references emerge with floral installations sprawling around them: a car wash with the yellow cab dressed in flowers, a pizza restaurant with the logo decorated in bouquets, and washing machines of orchids that viewers can look through like an observatory. The exhibition stages a dialogue between nature and metropolis, and the result is monumental and intimate, a dreamlike version of New York, just rendered in petals and orchids. The exhibition also explores scale, as large-format floral gestures wrap around the downsized buildings inside the exhibition. This shift between macro and micro perspectives reflects the dual nature of New York itself: vast and towering, yet filled with small, personal moments. 

By staging orchids within this urban narrative, designer Mr. Flower Fantastic reframes floristry as immersive environment design. Beginning March 21, select evenings introduce Orchid Nights, which are botanical block parties. Music, dancing, cash bars, and food activate the space after hours, turning the conservatory into a living cultural venue. Light, sound, and movement add new dimensions to the installation, allowing the experience to become less a traditional flower show and more a social landscape in bloom. The exhibition runs inside the New York Botanical Garden until April 26th, 2026, and here, the conservatory becomes a floral metropolis in the hands of Mr. Flower Fantastic, presenting a tangible reminder that even in the coldest months, the city can still bloom.

Mr. Flower Fantastic reimagines New York City as an exhibition with orchid and floral installations

view of the washing machines containing flowers and orchids

a pizza restaurant decorated with flowers

city bus stop with flowers blooming around it

subway station of Orchid Avenue

detailed view of the orchids

the New York Botanical Garden hosts the show

project info:

name: The Orchid Show: Mr. Flower Fantastic’s Concrete Jungle

designer: Mr. Flower Fantastic | @mrflowerfantastic

garden: New York Botanical Garden | @nybg

location: 2900 Southern Blvd Bronx, New York

dates: February 7th to April 26th, 2026

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