Orchids in The Desert

We were looking for something close to home to do the other day and heard of orchids in the Twentynine Palms area so off we went to investigate. You have to realize that when you get out of town you are in the desert. We turned north at Palm Springs, went through Yucca Valley and then further north to a "town" called Landers. This area is in the Little San Bernardino Mountains and as you look around all you see for 50 miles is desert, cactus and dirt. So we are thinking someone was really fooling us.

Finally, thinking this might be a wasted trip we came across the Gubler Orchid hot houses. Look at the land behind me and what do you see - NOTHING, we are in the middle of nowhere!

But what a sweet surprise. They have over 50,000 square feet filled with over 5,000 different orchid hybrids. I didn't know there were that many. They gave us a personal tour and we saw a large variety of beautiful orchids.

We learned that Gubler Orchids is one of the nation's largest orchid growers and they ship throughout the US and the world. Mr. Gubler settled here in 1975 because of the great growing conditions and had a dream of building a business from his love of orchids. He certainly did that.

The trip was well worth it and we would recommend it to anyone in the area.