Monday, June 16, 2025

Flowers in the hotel atrium

We had enjoyed looking at the flowers in the hotel atrium at the Margaritaville Resort. On Sunday, we had talked with a lady who was cleaning/watering the plants and she told us that her company had the contract to keep the plants looking nice in this and a few other hotels and businesses in the Lake Tahoe area.

The planting near the elevators in the main atrium (the lady was spraying the leaves of the tall plant on the right to prevent mealybugs).

Google Lens tells me that this is Guzmania ligulata, also known as the scarlet star or vase plant.

Google Lens identifies this as Phalaenopsis amabilis, also known as a moth orchid.

Also identified as moth orchid

moth orchid

moth orchid

Another scarlet star

moth orchid

moth orchid

moth orchid

moth orchid

moth orchid

moth orchid

Google Lens also says this is a scarlet star

scarlet star with peace lily behind

This is also indicated as an orange Guzmania bromeliad.

When we were talking with the lady who was spraying the plants, she mentioned that they replace the flowering plants once a month, and if you happen to be there when they are replacing them, you can get the previous month's plants for free, as they just throw them away! Unfortunately, we were there in the middle of the life of these particular plants so we didn't bring any home (and it is just as well as I am famous for killing any plants on my watch!).

More flowers than you probably wanted to see, but they were so pretty and we enjoyed seeing them every time we walked by!  

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