Clown Alley Orchids

Great place! Great plants at reasonable prices. Staff is super friendly and helpful. Would definitely recommend to any orchid lover.

Orchid growers are not your typical gardeners. It takes a unique kind of person to willing care for a plant that demands constant attention and rewards its keeper with the briefest of blooms, sometimes only every few years. Or perhaps that is part of what drives the fascination. Houston, being a place where an orchid can survive outside is something of a hot bed of orchid culture. Clown Alley is appropriately located on Lilly St. a block over from Daisy and Pansy Streets. and just across from Gardenia Trail and Honeysuckle Lane. I am serious, check the map. The place is dedicated exclusively to orchids and apparently does as much of their business by phone and mail order business as they do by local retail. Two full green houses filled with orchids ranging from common to exotic. The owner is very friendly and quite knowledgeable. He is a regular at orchid shows around the South and presents at the Houston Orchid Society. Like I said, orchid growers are not your typical gardeners. He spent probably forty five minutes with us explaining the idiosyncrasies and characteristics of dozens of different orchids, how to care for them, the ins and outs of different media, you name it. If orchids are your thing, it is definitely worth a trip out to Pasadena.