Costa Rican Orchid Week/Semana de la Orquídea Costarricense

En Costa Rica la segunda semana del mes de marzo se celebra como 'La Semana de la Orquídea Costarricense’, por ser la época en que la guaria morada, flor nacional, está en el apogeo de su floración. Para más información acerca de la guaria morada vaya al sitio de la Asociación Costarricense de Orquideología organización que se encarga de proteger y celebrar esta espectacular belleza natural.

[Photo by Marco Mora.]

In Costa Rica, the second week of March is when the Guaria Morada, the national flower, is in peak bloom, therefore it is known as Costa Rican Orchid Week. For more information regarding the Guaria Morada go to the Costa Rican Orchidology Association’s website. This organization is in charge of protecting and celebrating this spectacular beauty. If you don’t understand Spanish, at least you can enjoy the photos of the many varieties of guaria that exist in Costa Rica.

What’s in a name?

I really wanted to name this blog “The opinionated knitter” because, well, that's what I am, but I was afraid that a horde of hardcore Elizabeth Zimmerman devotees would accuse me of sacrilege and show up in the night waving bludgeon clubs and burning torches.

How did I decide on La Guaria del Bosque? Well, I am originally from Costa Rica, where the national flower is the Guaria Morada, an orchid which grows in great abundance all over Central America (there are approximately 1,400 orchid species in Costa Rica alone). I now live in the Washington, DC area. Outside my balcony there is about half an acre of trees that look like a little forest. I absolutely adore my balcony view. And so, I like to think of myself as an orchid of the forest, thus La Guaria del Bosque. [Photo by Oscar Chacón.]

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When I lived in Connecticut I used to be on the local board of directors for Hostelling International. One of my fellow board members was a German woman who learned how to drive after she moved to the United States, therefore, despite being a fluent speaker of German, she only knew the parts of the car engine in English. Likewise, since I learned how to knit in the U.S., my knitting terminology is mostly limited to English. I hope you’ll understand.