About Us
David Bird has been growing orchids for 31 years. On a family trip to Hawaii when he was a kid, he bought his first 5 orchids. Working at the Denver Botanical Garden with orchids and managing the orchid greenhouse in college, just made the addiction all the sweeter. Finally getting a BS degree in Horticulture at North Dakota State University, David started his Horticulture career at the International Peace Garden and enlarged the orchid collection to 800 plants. The Des Moines Botanical Center needed a new Horticulturist and David developed a large Oncidium Collection. On to Powell Gardens, just outside of Kansas City, David started an orchid exhibit that is still an annual event.
Finally the orchids took over and David started Bird's Botanicals and made the orchids a new career. Still fascinated with Hawaii, the collection has grown to over 4,000 plants and he makes annual trips to Hawaii working with growers on new and improved orchids. Birds' Botanicals started as a home based greenhouse business with 400 square feet of growing space. David told his wife he would never need more space than that. Any orchid grower knows there is never enough growing space for the orchids. Now with 6,000 square feet (soon to be 7,000 square feet) in a cave with HPS lights, the orchids have complete climate control.